A special oil train with dignitaries, dubbed the "Mapco Express" pauses at Healy. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Fall in Alaska can be spectacular if not short and catching something other than a passenger train in Healy Canyon during the daylight hours is a treat. During the Fall and it is even a bigger bon... (more)

Alaska Railroad 3002 leads a barge train north along the shore of Cook Inlet. Alaska is big country and the scenery can really make the trains looks small. In the background are the Kenai Mountain... (more)

Alaska Railroad 3002, serving as lead locomotive, for the railroads ballast train, is seen tied up, in the Healy Yard.

The fall colors and the corporate colors of the Alaska Railroad or a good match on this beautiful fall day as the 120N heads for Anchorage with a relatively short train interchange from the barge ... (more)

3002 is exiting the branch from Whittier and entering the mainline at Portage for the remaining 50 miles to Anchorage. In Anchorage this train will switched out for local Anchorage customers and t... (more)

Engineer Bill Bivins gives the photographer a friendly wave on a beautiful fall day. With the sun shining and the colors at peak it was a great day to be with camera in hand.

After following the charter as far as Portage I was fortunate and was able to pick up a northbound freight just out of Whittier for the journey north. Seen here with three GP40-2s crossing Glacier... (more)

An Alaska Railroad work train is in the hole at Brookman waiting on the last passenger train of the night. The work train spent the day dropping rail between Girdwood and MP 72

A train of traditional freight cars rolls past the salt water pond in Portage. These cars were delivered to the Alaska Railroad via the Canadian barge service out of Prince Rupert and makes a roun... (more)

Two GP40-2s lead a SD70MAC with a northbound freight off the barge in Whittier. Tucked in the short siding at Rainbow is one of the railroad's many summer passenger trains.

Arctic Railroading - Well, not quite. Fairbanks is 125 miles south of the arctic circle, but with temperatures dipping routinely to 30 or 40 below zero you wouldn't know the difference! I... (more)

Railroading at 30-below! - It is 30 degrees below zero and dropping on a Tuesday afternoon in Alaska's second largest city. A lone yard unit is coupled to a long string of TOFC flats and h... (more)

Three GP40-2s (3002, 3012, 3008) each wearing a unique paint scheme in descending order from most recent to most vintage lead a work train south along Turnagain Arm on a cold blustery Saturday. Th... (more)

Three GP40-2s (3002, 3012, 3008) each wearing a unique paint scheme in descending order from most recent to most vintage lead a work train south along Turnagain Arm on a cold blustery Saturday.