The Countdown Unit leads the Denali Star under Vandenberg Dr. on Elmendorf AFB. Follow along or share your trackside experiences in The Last Frontier at Railroad: Alaska Railroad
Locomotive: EMD SD70MAC
Location: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, USA
Locomotive #: ARR 4321
Train ID: Denali Star
Photo Date: June 19, 2012

The Spirit of Delta Junction leads a rock train south toward Anchorage. The Alaska Railroad runs these rock trains CP-style with one unit up front and one on the back.

Showers continue to fall on the Chugach Mountains while the sun makes a much-appreciated appearance over the Anchorage Yard on a pleasant late Spring evening. The Denali Star is seen here a coupl... (more)

An on-time Denali Star rolls south through Elmendorf AFB just minutes from its destination at the Alaska Railroad depot in downtown Anchorage.

Most of the year the Alaska Railroad freight that runs north to Fairbanks each evening does so under the cover of darkness. As the days grow longer in the Last Frontier shots of the freight as the... (more)

The Aurora Winter Train makes its Sunday run south just north of Willow. During the winter months until mid-May, this train will depart Anchorage every Saturday morning for Fairbanks and make the... (more)

Export coal snakes south along the Turnagain Arm late in the day just as the sun is hitting the horizon.

A Whittier-bound freight hugs the north shore of the Turnagain Arm and the Seward Highway as it works its way south on a beautiful Spring evening.

The three distriibuted power units sit on the rear of a 70 car loaded export coal train that is strung out in Seward yard sitting on track 8 and hanging through the crossovers up here to track Upp... (more)

It was a splendid cold Sunday with bluebird skies and crisp white snow abounding. An empty intermodal (bare table) train was called for a date with the Northland Services barge at the ARR's south... (more)

I got a late start south from Anchorage but I did manage this shot of a Seward bound freight crossing the bridge of 20 Mile Creek. While this would be the only train shot I would get this day ther... (more)

Welcome Home! - The Alaska Railroad's last active steam locomotive, #557, has returned after a 46 1/2 year hiatus in the lower 48. #557 is a Baldwin Locomotive Works class S-160 2-8-0 Cons... (more)

A Seward-bound passenger train skirts the Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage on a picture perfect summer afternoon in Alaska. Forty eight years ago today on March 27, 1964, the Good Friday Earthquak... (more)

There are more than a few twists and turns between Anchorage and Seward as SD70MAC 4320 turns the corner at MP 68 with a Seward bound freight.

On what was a beautiful winter day in the last frontier Alaska Railroad SD70MAC 4320 dusts some snow off of the trestle at Moose Pass over Upper Trail Lake enroute to Seward with empty flats for t... (more)