The southbound Coastal Classic passenger train skirts the Turnagain Arm at Indian Siding, 26 miles into its 114 mile journey to the south end of the Alaska RR at Seward. The P-30 power car ... (more)

ARR GP38-2 2005 switches the company warehouse in Anchorage Yard on a beautiful Saturday morning with the 4,396-foot Mt. Susitna rising in the background. These two tracks are used to load and unl... (more)

As the sign proclaims - "Fairbanks Alaska - north end of the main line of The Alaska Railroad". Having just arrived, 1502, 1506 and 1517 sit quietly with #2 from Anchorage in August 1985. 1517 was... (more)

Recently rebuilt and repainted at CEECO, #98 is awaiting #90, before being sent north. This is part of CEECO's swan song, as the facility will be closing later this year. Sad, very sad, more tha... (more)

Both still in Bicentennial livery, although relegated to more mundane duties, 1510 and 1512 pass through Eklutna on a northbound works train in a rare patch of sunshine on an otherwise overcast Au... (more)

Snow Fighting - Alaska Style! - The "snow fleet" has arrived with a Jordan Spreader, two geeps, and the ARR's sole depressed center flat car carrying a big Caterpillar excavator. Spencer i... (more)

I'm tooling around Tacoma after fixing the "little trains" only to realize I've seriously misjudged the sunset. I should be at Steilacoom, but that's a half hour away. Where, where can I go to c... (more)

This wonderful, steam-wreathed apparition appeared just after sunrise as 'Duke of Gloucester' thundered eastbound away from Addingford cutting near Horbury Junction. About two miles behind the tra... (more)

Alaska RR 31 a former Amtrak F40PH now a cab car rounds the south leg of the wye at Portage, AK

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)

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)

White Pass units 90 and 90 are chained to the deck of the barge Stikine Provider enroute to Tacoma, WA for a major rebuild. CEECO will install new Cummins UK primemover rated at 1500 hp. New ele... (more)

Sound transit's most distinctive paint scheme, pictured here with two other flavors of F59PHI's, never made it on the road during my visit. Still, I was able to shoot it in the barn with the permi... (more)

With the morning commute over, a deadhead Sounder returns to the layover yard. Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight awaits its departure time at King Street Station.

An ancient Union Switch and Signal Style B Semaphore on the Southern Pacific’s Siskiyou Line near Roseberg, Oregon, September, 9th, 2000. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com