The ARR's annual Colony Christmas train is just minutes away from arriving at its destination, the historic downtown Palmer Depot. The train made the mile sprint from Anchorage to Matanuska in u... (more)

The one and only time each year this photo can be taken is when the annual Colony Christmas train traverses the otherwises outer mile of the ARR's Palmer Branch. After unloading the holiday revel... (more)

The ARR's annual Colony Christmas train creeps slowly north at 10 MPH on the ARR's Palmer Branch passing the Alaska State Fairgrounds. This annual train is the only time one can photograph a trai... (more)

An employee braves the -11 degree cold to open his window and offer a big friendly wave from the trailing unit on the ARR's annual Colony Christmas Train. The train is on the north leg of the wy... (more)

The temperature is -11 degrees as the ice fog hangs listlessly beneath the face of the mighty Chugach Mountains as the ARR's annual Colony Christmas train leaves the mainline at 150.5 for it's 6 m... (more)

1508 1530 2402 on #2 to Fairbanks at Matanuska, just north of Anchorage. 2402 was unusually cab leading for this week due to a noisy coupling at the cab end, which was normally attached to the cre... (more)

1506, with 1502 1517 behind, at line speed with #1 passenger service from Fairbanks to Anchorage, near Houston

It's nearly 5 PM and well past sunset on a gloomy, dreary, foggy, and just generally miserable Sunday in Alaska. A geep sits forlornly under the golden glow of sodium vapor lighting on the fuel r... (more)

Alaska Railroad GP40 3004 poses for its picture (literally!) at Dixmoor. They actually posed the engine so I could get photos!

The pride of Alaska's passenger fleet the Southbound Denali Star is approaching Cantwell, AK on a beautiful fall day. Fall comes early in Alaska and this was a great day to be in Alaska.

Two classic Budd RDCs stand at a precipice..both factually and figuratively. They are resting nearly 300 ft above the waters of Hurricane Creek far below as they sit atop the ARR's most famous en... (more)

On a later summer morning twin ARR RDCs accelerate south from "downtown" Talkeetna to pick up passengers at the "summer" depot where the Denali Star makes it's daily stop. After picking up daytri... (more)

A gaggle of MP15s congregates in the "little yard" adjacent the Anchorage Yard Office. The ARR's main classification yard is particularly full on this brilliant spring day. This is a scene not l... (more)

A tired looking Geep reposes on Roundhouse Track 5 on a gray July afternoon. This unit was built in 1969 as a straight 38 for the Penn Central.

EMD 710eco demonstrator number 7102 was floated up to Alaska for a several month long test. It is seen resting in front of the ARR yard office as a string of cabooses is pulled by on the lead. Th... (more)