In my opinion March has some of the best weather Alaska has to offer. Clear skies and moderate temperatures, by Alaska standards, make March a great month for photography. The summer months when m... (more)

Learn more at Alaska Railfanning! The Spirit of Seward leads a four-pack of SD70MACs and a st... (more)

It has been a pretty bleak winter in Alaska, especially when you combine bleak weather with few trains. In fact until I took this photo I hadn't taken a photo in Alaska since sometime in November ... (more)

A quartet of MACs on the head end along with 3 more on the rear leads an export coal train out of the yard in downtown Anchorage for a trip down the Turnagain Arm bound for Seward.

Right on the heels of the Coastal Classic and a rare opportunity to photograph three trains in the span of a couple of hours is a lengthy freight from Whittier. It is not often when this combinati... (more)

Twin SD70MACs lead a 5409 ton and 7526 ft long freight southbound destined to Whittier and a date with ARMS barge voyage 1144. This monster train consists of 70 loads and 39 empties including 95 ... (more)

Twin SD70MACs lead a 5409 ton and 7526 ft long freight southbound destined to Whittier and a date with ARMS barge voyage 1144. This monster train consists of 70 loads and 39 empties including 95 ... (more)

Twin SD70MACs lead a 5409 ton and 7526 ft long freight southbound destined to Whittier and a date with ARMS barge voyage 1144. This monster train consists of 70 loads and 39 empties including 95 ... (more)

A pair of Alaska RR SD70MACs lead a loaded gravel train off of the Palmer Branch at Matanuska Junction, the branch's junction with the ARR mainline. The train will run south of Anchorage to one of... (more)

On a splendid Friday evening the ARR's regular nightly Anchorage Fairbanks freight is only 30 minutes out of its origin as it clips along through the wilderness on the vast Joint Base Elemdorf-Ric... (more)

An Alaska gravel train traverses the last section of the Palmer Branch and will join the mainline at Matanuska Junction in about a quarter of mile. You can just begin to see the start of the fall ... (more)

An ARR gravel train is tied down in the siding at Birchwood for the weekend on a damp late summer evening. The ARR operates 2-3 gravel trains during the summer construction season on most weekdays... (more)

Because of the quagmire that is Alaska massive quantities of gravel is required in order to build anything. Hence during the construction season the Alaska Railroad runs three gravel trains a day.... (more)

The 80 car empty QAP gravel train is rolling north in downtown Anchorage at MP 115.1 on the ARR's Alaska Division mainline. This bucolic scene is right in the heart of downtown where the railroad... (more)

Northbound Denali Star awaits its 8:15 a.m. departure