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)

Street Running - Alaska Style

This is as close as you can get to street running in Alaska as a yard engine trundles back south beside 1st Ave after spotting three cars at a custome... (more)

ARR 2001 runs light along Ship Creep while doing some switching on a beautiful fall morning. Looking across, Cook Inlet, the mountain in the center of the background is Mount Susitna (4396 ft high... (more)

There aren't too many places where you can find a gritty industrial yard with snow capped peaks for a backdrop. On this beautiful Sunday morning, 2 Geeps were working the Anchorage yard. Here 2001... (more)

Arctic Moonrise - It's 30 degrees below zero and dropping on a Tuesday afternoon in Alaska's second largest city. The 2001 and GP40-2 3011 have just returned from a two day journey from An... (more)

It is a spectacular clear and bright early fall day in the Last Frontier and the birch trees are have already turned and the higher peaks of the Chugach are already dusted in show. This shot was ... (more)

End of the Line... Alaska Railroad Russell snowplow is leading an odd little train that is being shoved down alongside East First Avenue. This vintage piece of equipment was built in Aug... (more)

ARR 2001 is seen crossing the Snow River on the approach to Seward - 23/07/2010

Alaska 2001 is seen leading the daily Anchorage-Seward passenger train south desending Moose Pass - 23/07/2010

Now THAT's what I call exhaust - even an Alco would be jealous! A pair of geeps sit on the "mainline" in front of the Fairbanks yard office humming away in high idle working hard just to ... (more)

After making a switch on some flats staged for military loading this lovely ARR geep poses beside the new Port of Anchorage sign to line behind their derail. This trackage and landscaping are all... (more)

The ARR's annual Colony Christmas train has arrived at its destination, the historic downtown Palmer depot which now serves as a community center and in which is set up the annual holiday market a... (more)

The ARR's annual Colony Christmas train is just minutes away from arriving at its destination, the historic downtown Palmer Depot. The train made the mile sprint from Anchorage to Matanuska in u... (more)

The one and only time each year this photo can be taken is when the annual Colony Christmas train traverses the otherwises outer mile of the ARR's Palmer Branch. After unloading the holiday revel... (more)

The ARR's annual Colony Christmas train creeps slowly north at 10 MPH on the ARR's Palmer Branch passing the Alaska State Fairgrounds. This annual train is the only time one can photograph a trai... (more)