Fresh off the barge Artic Provider an Alaska freight train crosses 20 Mile River on a beautiful fall afternoon. A barge arrives Whittier, AK on a weekly schedule from the lower 48 while another ba... (more)

Looks like Alaska Railroad GP40-2 3012 is in the shop for a little Alaska TLC. Alaska Railroad has a fully equipped shop that can handle just about everything the railroad can throw at it with the... (more)

Geep Trifecta! It's getting harder and harder to find a three scheme consist on the ARR these days as only three units still wear their as delivered 1970s black and gold from the days of f... (more)

An ARR yard job trundles south at MP 119.8 on the ARR mainline crossing the Davis Hwy. on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The gondolas were loaded with contaminated dirt from the military base t... (more)

It is almost 9pm and still an hour away from sunset on this beautiful late summer day along the Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage as the northbound Coastal Classic parallels the Sewar... (more)

A set of ARR power waits for its nocturnal trip to Whitter under a beautiful Alaska afternoon sky with the Chugach Mountains rising in the background to the east.

Alaskan Coal! The mid train DPU helpers can be seen 37 cars back cut into the train in this view from the second of 3-MACs (ARR 4004, 4012, 4328) on the head end of this 10,765 ton loaded c... (more)

Big Time Coal! 10 units - count 'em - curl north with 113 empty coal hoppers along the icy shores of Turnagain Arm beneath the snowy peaks of the Chugach Mountains. This is by far th... (more)

Big Time Coal! 10 units - count 'em - curl north with 113 empty coal hoppers along the icy shores of Turnagain Arm beneath the snowy peaks of the Chugach Mountains. This is by far th... (more)

Big Time Coal! 10 units - count 'em - curl north with 113 empty coal hoppers along the icy shores of Turnagain Arm beneath the snowy peaks of the Chugach Mountains. This is by far th... (more)

Big Time Coal! 10 units - count 'em - curl north with 113 empty coal hoppers along the icy shores of Turnagain Arm beneath the snowy peaks of the Chugach Mountains. This is by far th... (more)

Big Time Coal! 10 units - count 'em - curl north with 113 empty coal hoppera about to cross Bird Creek Bridge on the Alaska Division Mainline. Adjacent traffic on the Seward Highway... (more)

Train Time! Excited passengers, weary tour bus drivers, and enthusiastic adventurers, and Jack Goodwell (ARRC's ticket agent - in the orange vest) are on the platform to greet the arrival... (more)

End of the Line... Alaska Railroad Russell snowplow is leading an odd little train that is being shoved down alongside East First Avenue. This vintage piece of equipment was built in Aug... (more)

End of the Line... Alaska Railroad Russell snowplow #4 kicks up a little powder on the mainline for the very last time. This vintage piece of equipment was built in August of 1949 and is... (more)