A pair of SD70MAC's works a train at Whittier Yard after arriving in from Anchorage. The barge from Seattle is in town and the yard was a busy place on this day as a result.

After the Glacier Discovery train left town, a freight train comes out to continue building its train at Whittier for the trip to Anchorage later in the evening.

The Glacier Discovery train rolls through Girdwood Alaska on its way to Whittier for a day full of fun for the tourist onboard. The tide is out exposing the mud flats out in the bay in the Turnaga... (more)

The Glacier Discovery train shoves back toward Whittier after dropping passengers off at the Portage Depot after their rafting and Spencer Glacier tours.

It's a beautiful morning in the Turnagain Arm area as the Coastal Classic rolls over Twenty Mile River on its way down to Seward Alaska.

The Glacier Discovery train from Whittier makes a station stop in Girdwood on it's trip back to Anchorage Alaska.

The Coastal Classic train rolls through some spectacular scenery in the Turnagain Arm on its way to Seward Alaska. The trees in between the Seward Highway and the tracks are dead from salt water i... (more)

An empty rock train passes the Alaska Railroad downtown station after a crew change.

An 86 car empty gravel train, lead by 5 MACs, crosses the iconic Hurricane Gulch Bridge on the Alaska Railroad. About MP 284 on the railroad and climbing the hill towards the Summit of Broad Pass ... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Alaska Railroad Alco MRS1 1601 works the roads yard in Anchorage in the summer of 1980. At the time there were several of these former US military units running. there low clearance profile is cle... (more)

Alaska Railway EMD F7A 1530 prepares to depart the station in Anchorage for the Beautiful run to Fairbanks in June of 1980. The 1530 Is the Former Rio Grande 5654. This unit was wrecked in 197... (more)

Two nice looking engines right out of the paint shop.

After grabbing a shot of this train under cloudy skies at Portage, I like the train headed north for Anchorage. As I got near Girdwood I could see that it was likely the sun would dip below the cl... (more)

Geep Renaissance: The Alaska Railroad powered a rail train with 5 Geeps. Seen here at Brookman with 3 GP40-2s and 2 GP38-2s in 3 separate paint schemes. To make things even better the rear of the ... (more)