Heading for the Hills

The Alaska Railroad dispatched a "snow fleet" work extra consisting of two GP40-2s pushing Harsco/Jordan Spreader 9 south to Portage to begin open... (more)

Golden hour light bathes the scene as the Coastal Classic rolls north alongside the Seward Highway and Turnagain Arm, slowly clicking off the miles to Anchorage.

The Glacier Discovery shoves back through what has to be one of the largest control points in North America after making its station stop at Portage in order to clear the main for a southbound fre... (more)

A quiet late August afternoon along Turnagain Arm is briefly interrupted as 120S heads south with barge traffic for Whittier and the Lower 48.

The conductor on the 120N is enjoying a warm late August day with the window wide open as this pair of SD70MACs have nearly 10,000 tons of mixed freight and containers from the Lower 48 in tow ove... (more)

Three of Alaska Railroad's finest lead train 125S into the junction at Portage where the Whittier branch leaves the Seward main.

A lengthy 120S starts onto the Whittier Branch and begin the 12 mile trek to Whittier and a date with the ARMs barge to Seattle. In the background is 20 Mile Valley including 20 Mile Glacier. In t... (more)

This shot of the 181S may turn out to be the very last export coal train on the Alaska Railroad. With the soft coal market this will be the last train needed to fill the coal ship at Seward. Curre... (more)

Following the Coastal Classic to Seward was this rare coal train of 2016, only the 6th train of export coal all year. But it was a beautiful day to be out. In just moments the crew will cross 20 M... (more)

On a very blustery day a lengthy train off the barge in Whittier rolls through the Portage Valley while a mostly obscured Begich Peak looks on as the day begins to clear. One can look quite a way ... (more)

A couple of MACs have just left the mainline at Portage and have entered the Whittier Branch. In the next 12 miles this train will pass through two tunnels, one of which the railroad shares with a... (more)

3002 is exiting the branch from Whittier and entering the mainline at Portage for the remaining 50 miles to Anchorage. In Anchorage this train will switched out for local Anchorage customers and t... (more)

One of Alaska Railroads unique to the Alaska RR GP 49's led a southbound barge train near Portage.

ARR northbound Seward to Anchorage coal empty with a cut of freight behind the power approaching Portage.

Cruise train leaving Portage to Whittier