Looking like a MAC daddy on display at Fairbanks Railroad Day is SD70MAC # 4328 in a special scheme influenced by Alaska Railroad's first blue and yellow locomotives of the 1950s. This year, 2023... (more)

Fairbanks yard is the northernmost engine house in North America and these two cold warriors are amongst the most senior locomotives of the fleet. GP38-2 #2004 came to Alaska in 1986 from Conrail ... (more)

A very Alaskan switching scene with the Lynden Alaska trailers in the background and bold Alaska lettering on this GP38-2. I have a soft spot for this particular locomotive as it happens to also b... (more)

The wildfire smoke is really bad on this morning in Fairbanks as a local with a pair of Alaska Railroad GP38-2's hits the elevated curve at Rentals Street on its way to North Pole Alaska.

On a very cold morning, -20 degrees, the Fairbanks yard sends a yard job the 15 or so miles to the North Pole to deliver some fuel cars to the former refinery now distribution center. Seen here at... (more)

An 80 ton GE center cab switcher, sits in the yard, in Fairbanks. This and one other center cab locomotive, were purchased from the US Army in Bayone, NJ, and were delivered in Fairbanks, in Janua... (more)

Alaska Railroad's northbound Anchorage to Fairbanks freight, 130N, is seen heading into Fairbanks, AK approaching University Avenue with a pair of headend SD70MACs, with another pair mid-train as ... (more)

One of three remaining black Alaska Railroad GP40-2s - ARR 3001 (the other two are 3003 and 3006) - is seen with GP40-2 3010 working the Fairbanks, Alaska yard on the morning of March 14, 2017.

Alaska Railroad locomotive in heritage scheme leads this special passenger train for the NRHS convention in Alaska.

188's power a Mac and a GP40 sit outside the shops on a cold and misty night.

A pair of matching Geeps idle just east of the Fairbanks shop building as we roll out of town at 0820 on the southbound Denali Star bound for Anchorage some 355 miles south. In the foreground we a... (more)

2005 one of the Billboard GP38-2's, 2006 a newer painted GP38-2 and 4322 lay over outside the shops in Fairbanks with a light rain falling.

The hostlers have taken over for the road crew on the 130N, they have just yarded the train and now take the pair of MAC's to be turned as the Denali Star is almost ready to depart for Anchorage.

As their last move of the day, the 459 job pulls empty coal cars from UAF to take back to the yard. The sky still has a nice blue tint even though the sun has been set for over two hours.

2007 switches coal loads and empties at the east end of the yard in Fairbanks. Coal is still the main source of power in this part of Alaska with several power plants in the Fairbanks area.