The Alaska State Fair Train returns to Anchorage with ARR 32 on the point for this southbound move from Palmer. The State Fair Train is running two weekends in 2013 with four trips between Anchor... (more)

It's getting late in the tourist season and the Denali Star is showing it with a rather short train, seen here about to pull off the main track and into the depot in downtown Anchorage.

A freight train bound for Whittier pops out of the 5,050'-long Portage Tunnel and into Bear Valley behind a classic black and yellow GP40-2. As an interesting note to this photo, take a look at t... (more)

6 Locs on one photo: ARR-Meeting in the yard at Anchorage. We are arriving with the Denali Star, I am standing on the open deck in the second double-stock car

ARR-Meeting in Whittier early in the morning. The train in the background waits until the conductor has changed the switch. This train will pick up the passengers from the cruise ship 'Island Prin... (more)

You see a locomotive, and I see a movie star. Runaway Train is one of my favorite movies, and not just because it starred four locomotives racing through the Alaska wilderness at high speed. Rid... (more)

A Whittier-bound freight heads over Twentymile River under the control of ARR 3006, 1 of only 3 units left in the original black and yellow paint. Thanks to fellow RP contributor Frank Keller for... (more)

ARR 3006 leads a long Whittier-bound freight through south Anchorage as it breezes by Alaska Sand & Gravel which sees a unit rock train 6 days a week.

After taking the normal shot I sung 180 degrees and shot the going away shot with this piece of driftwood along the shores of Turnagain Arm. The spot I am taking the picture from is only available... (more)

A spot I had been meaning to try out this summer but hadn't had the opportunity to explore yet. With a hint of sunshine after several days of rain I was more than itching to get out. I decided tod... (more)

Led by ARR #3010, the Glacier Discovery train slows down for a stop to load people coming off the Spencer Glacier rafting tour (including the photographer).

Delivered new as ARR 3000 in 1975, ARR 3006 was re-numbered to its current I.D. later that same year. Without a little digging, you'd never know this is the class unit of ARR's GP40-2s! Here, 38... (more)

Nearing the end of a long day of running around the state, the Countdown Unit starts the last leg of its day northbound toward Anchorage after a stop in Whittier.

ARR 4321 backs a Princess Cruises Train off the south leg of the wye in Portage after a brief visit to Whittier. In the background, Explorer Glacier hangs out in the Chugach Mountains.

It's the Coastal Classic and it's breezing north through Portage!