Welcome to Whittier! It isn't nice very often in Whittier. In fact, the town features some of the worst weather in Alaska with a normal winter seeing over 420 inches of snow! Known for r... (more)

Welcome to Whittier! - Two of the last three GP40-2s to wear their 1975 as delivered black and yellow paint march a 6015 ft train out of the 13,338 ft long tunnel and into the town of Whitt... (more)

A pair of Alaska RR GP40-2s lead an Anchorage-bound freight train around the north leg of the wye at Portage with the Chugach Mountains standing tall in the background. The dead trees in the foreg... (more)

Three SD70MACs lead an export coal train along the Lower Trail Lake near Crown Point, Alaska as seen fro a Cessna 182 float plane on a beautiful late summer day in Alaska.

It's Friday afternoon on a spectacular summer evening at about 1945 as the southbound Denali Star sweeps around a gentle two degree curve as it gets ready to accelerate back to 60 MPH for the las... (more)

It is a spectacular clear and bright early fall day in the Last Frontier and the birch trees are have already turned and the higher peaks of the Chugach are already dusted in show. This shot was ... (more)

It is a spectacular clear and bright early fall day in the Last Frontier and the birch trees are have already turned but the early snow has melted off the peaks of the Chugach Mountains. This sho... (more)

Now this is what I call a passenger train! - One of the longest passenger trains in recent ARR history is being readied for departure. This train consists of 22 cars with two MACs on the s... (more)

Alaska 4009 is seen arriving at Healy with an empty coal train to be loaded for export at Seward - 28/07/2010

Fresh off the barge Artic Provider an Alaska freight train crosses 20 Mile River on a beautiful fall afternoon. A barge arrives Whittier, AK on a weekly schedule from the lower 48 while another ba... (more)

Big Time Coal! 10 units - count 'em - curl north with 113 empty coal hoppers along the icy shores of Turnagain Arm beneath the snowy peaks of the Chugach Mountains. This is by far th... (more)

The Coastal Classic skirts the glacier fed Upper Trail Lake near Mosse Pass, Alaska. Todays train also includes power car 32

An Alaska Railroad coal crosses the Snowy River Bridge and is climbing the Hill to the summit at Divide. On of a couple of steep grades between Anchorage and Seward.

The three head end SD70MACs on this Seward-bound export coal train are about to cross Upper Trail Lake just north of Moose Pass, Alaska as seen from a Cessna 182 float plane. To see a railroad pas... (more)

A nice rock outcropping helps to frame the train.