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.
And so my 3-year adventure in Alaska begins! After finishing up at Birchwood, a work trains runs south for Anchorage at a restricted speed to call it a day.
Roster shots on a sunny day in Whittier, Alaska are hard to pass up! A pair of Alaska RR GP40-2s await a crew to take them and a freight train north to Anchorage.
The three distriibuted power units sit on the rear of a 70 car loaded export coal train that is strung out in Seward yard sitting on track 8 and hanging through the crossovers up here to track Upp... (more)
Four SD70MACs rest here on the head end of a 70 car loaded export coal train that is strung out in Seward yard sitting on track 8 and hanging back north through the crossovers to track Upper 7 wit... (more)