The colors are wildly ablaze in the Last Frontier in the waning days of summer signaling the end of passenger season on the Alaska Railroad. A lone unit is working hard pulling 8 luxury domes own... (more)

Dreams Do Come True

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. This was my first trip to Donner Pass, a place I'd dreamt of seeing ever since I was young child, and I get to sh... (more)

Winters Last Gasp

Near the very end of March Southcentral Alaska got hit with its last good snow dump of the winter season. Nearly a foot fell in some places and the fresh afternoon... (more)

On a stunning spring evening in the Last Frontier a southbound freight from Anchorage takes a left turn on to the Whittier Branch main for the 12 mile run to its destination at tidewater on Prince... (more)

This is another of those shots I'd always wanted and just got luck this day and stumbled upon it. It seems a bit like honorary street running and just had an incongruous charm about it.

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BN Lives in 2017!

The BN has been gone 22 years but you'd barely know it with this clean white face classic leading a northbound manifest on BNSF's remarkably scenic and surprising... (more)

BN Lives in 2017!

The BN has been gone 22 years but you'd barely know it with this clean white face classic leading a northbound manifest on BNSF's remarkably scenic and surprising... (more)

Dreams Do Come True

Sometimes its better to be lucky than good. This was my first trip to Donner Pass, a place I'd dreamt of seeing ever since I was young child, and I get to shoot ... (more)

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)

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

The Alaska Railroad ran a pair of sold out Kids Valentines Trains on the Saturday before Valentines Day. In this view we see the northbound returning 3 PM train approaching Rainbow Siding. The Ke... (more)

There are very few Class Ones that still have a working roundhouse and turntable anymore which is one thing (among many) that makes Seattle's rail scene special. But at the north end of BNSF's Bal... (more)

Time Warp

While the skyline is decidedly 2017 the motive power is much more 1987! In this view looking north on the Seattle Sub we see a hostler job holding at the Spokane Str... (more)

A late fall snow storm in 2015 dumped a a lot of snow on interior Alaska necessitating the ARR to call out a "snow fleet." Here we see the two GP40-2s bracketed by ARR Spreaders #9 (blt... (more)

Street Running - Alaska Style

This is as close as you can get to street running in Alaska as a yard job shoves three cars north toward CEI. The little train is running alongside 1... (more)