Northbound passenger extra is meeting the special "Mapco Express" oil train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

A train rolls over the impressive Twenty Mile River and through spectacular scenery as it approaches the depot in Portage Alaska. Portage Glacier can be seen in the distance.

GP40-2s 3015,3010 and F7B 1503 after arrival with the 08.30 passenger service from Fairbanks.

A cruise special from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport tops the grade at Divide about 10 miles north of an awaiting Norwegian Cruise Lines ship, safely docked in the lovely small town o... (more)

A special for Norwegian Cruise Lines crosses the Trail River on its journey to Seward and an awaiting cruise ship.

On a splendid late summer afternoon the ARR's Seward based Grandview Cruise Train rolls south across the Snow River about 15 miles from its destination at the end of the ARR mainline in Seward. T... (more)

The ARR's Seward Cruise Train is seen at the railroad's unique elevated station serving Anchorage International Airport. The train will soon depart the airport and begin the 114 mile journey to Se... (more)

The MEX hugs the rocks closely as it makes it's way south out of Girdwood.

3015 leads the MEX south past Gorilla rock as it heads for Whittier and eventually Seward.

After arriving from the south, it's time to add some passengers and change crews for this pull-pull cruise train before it heads north to McKinley. This train will come back south to Whittier and... (more)

ARR 3015 is at the end of a long day that took it and cruise ship passengers from Seward, north to McKinley, and then back south eventually ending up on the siding here at Portage. The Chugach Mo... (more)

Crew change time and another round of tourists load up in downtown Anchorage for a run north to McKinley. In addition to the usual named passenger trains that run on a daily basis during the summ... (more)

Not very many pictures have been seen from this particular spot on the Alaska Railroad. This is the siding location of Tunnel high in the Chugach Mountains, far from any road, and named for the 5 ... (more)

ARR 3015 is seen here at the Anchorage depot basking in the sun on a warm sunny spring day in Alaska awaiting its next run into the last frontier.

An Alaska Railroad Cruise Train is returning to Seward from the airport with a load of passengers, seen here along Turnagain Arm at Indian.