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Alaska Railroad Videos

 
 

MPegs by Harold Emerick (June 1999)

  • 01: No. 3014 leading a passenger train
  • 02: Six locomotives pulling hoppers
  • 03: Locomotive and power car pull a passenger train up a hill
  • Quicktime videos by John Combs (July 2002)

  • 01: Northbound Seward passenger train crossing Twenty Mile Bridge (160x120, 192KB)
  • 02: Interior of the business car Aurora (160x120, 192KB)
  • 03: Southbound Seward passenger train in a scenic curve (320x240, 704KB)
  • 04: Overhead view of Northbound Seward passenger train passing through a tunnel (160x120, 512KB)
  • 05: Overhead view of Denali Star from overpass at Healy yard (160x120, 656KB)
  • 06: Piggy packer loading a trailer onto a flat car (160x120, 652KB)
  • 07: SD70MAC leads passenger train into Fairbanks depot (160x120, 544KB)
  • 08: Southbound Coastal Classic crossing Snow River Bridge (160x120, 832KB)
  • 09: Aerial view of Healy coal tipple (320x240, 1.7MB)
  • 10: Driving into the Anton Anderson Memorial tunnel heading to Whitter (320x240, 1.1MB)

  • Quicktime videos by Stewart White

    01: Moose Gooser - last steam engine on the line; Kiwanis shipped up for Alaska centennial; #16 on Labor Day 1967; (320x240, 1MB)
    02: Moose Gooser - last steam engine on the line; Kiwanis shipped up for Alaska centennial; #16 on Labor Day 1967; (320x240, 724KB)
    03: Engineer Stu White blowing horn (320x240, 620KB)
    04: Old dormitory at Curry (320x240, 972KB)
    05: Rotary throwing snow (320x240, 1.2MB)
    06: Rotary throwing snow (320x240, 760KB)
    07: Rotary throwing snow (320x240, 780KB)
    08: Rotary throwing snow (320x240, 996KB)
    09: No. 3002 after hitting a pickup truck  (320x240, 600KB)
    10: Grandview wreck ? tried to single a double with a bunch of light flats on the head and they string lined them; should have doubled the hill  (320x240, 6.1MB)

    Quicktime videos by Pat Durand

    01: The Alaska Railroad operated a Christmas Special to Seward on December 6, 2003 Three locomotives with 3014 in the lead along with P-30 delivered a 12 car train to the Alaska Railroad Cruise Ship Terminal in Seward. The passengers were greeted to a holiday bazaar in the terminal building and free shuttle bus service to local Seward retailers. The weather was cloudless and 20°F in Seward. The video clip was taken in the shade at Crown Point just after the train crossed the Trail Lakes Bridge. It was 4°F in the Moose Pass area as the train passed through. (320x240, 10MB)

    02: On Sunday, July 17th the Friends of the Tanana Valley Railroad celebrated the 100th anniversary of railroading in Fairbanks by operating 106 year old TVRR Engine #1, downgrade (320x240, 10MB)

    03: On Sunday, July 17th the Friends of the Tanana Valley Railroad celebrated the 100th anniversary of railroading in Fairbanks by operating 106 year old TVRR Engine #1, upgrade (320x240, 10MB)

    Mpeg videos by Mike Ferguson

    01: Number 2008 pulling out of Quadra Chemical on the Fairbanks airport branch. Number 2008 had just pulled a empty tank and spotted a loaded one in its place. She is crossing a South Lathrop street with horn and bell going. (160x112, 122KB) January 2004
    02: Hear the rumbling thunder of two SD70MACS Nos. 4009, 4012 at the south end of the Fairbanks yard. (160x112, 284KB) January 30, 2004
    03: 4008 south at Sheep Creek Crossing. (160x112, 636K) March 2004
    04: SD70MAC coupling to a tank car. (160x112, 492K) April 2004
    05: SD70MAC 4323 pulling a south freight out of Fairbanks. (160x112, 775K) June 2004
    06: SD70MAC 4324 starting up. (160x112, 391K) June 2004
    07: Four SD70MACs split for distributed power; Sheep Creek crossing about 2:30 PM and the temperature is about -35 (160x112, 1.3MB) January 17, 2005
    08: Southbound Denali Star at Happy (640x368, 6.1MB) July 13, 2024
    09: Southbound Freight at Happy (640x368, 25.3MB) July 13, 2024

    Mpeg videos by Matt Leistico

    01: This was taken at Potter when I was coming back form Girdwood, and wanted to stop to check out the Potter station and happened to catch a southbound train. (320x240, 3.7MB) August 1, 2003
    02: A moose as seen from our passenger car from our Seward trip. (320x240, 688KB) June 24, 2003

    Quicktime videos by John Combs (March 2004)

    Quicktime videos by John Combs (August 2005)

    Quicktime videos by John Combs (November 2006)

    Quicktime videos by John Combs (July 2008)

    Quicktime videos by John Combs (March 2022)

    WMV videos by Andy Tejral

    AVI video by Raymond Hamm

    YouTube video by Steven Katkus

    Last run of Rotary #3 by Rick Leggett

    Video by Blake Moore

    Video by Casey Durand

    APU switching 12/25/20 (01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07)

    Three heritage units at the Anton Anderson Tunnel. Arriving Whittier on 2/5/21 with all 3 remaining Black and Gold GP40s. Single digit temps, blowing 40mph and gusting over 50mph.

    Three heritage units at Windy point, Southbound Whittier freight. Almost 7,000 feet of train. Locomotives were built and painted in 1974 and directly behind them are new flatcars built in 2020!

    Three heritage units at unnamed creek just railroad south from Potter Section. 2/5/21

    Three heritage units in Whittier 2/2/21

    Speeders near Anchorage 9/21

     

    Video by Robert Krol

    Video by RaeEllen Kurzendoerfer

    Video by Mike Gerenday

    Video by John James Rice

    Video by John Carrico

    Video by Rusty Wendlandt

    Video by Bill Hess

    Video by Vanessa Crandell Beck

    Video by Brian LeRoy

    Video by Steve Katkus

    Video by Robert Nelson

    Video by Michael Maillet

    Videos by R. Lolli Morrow

    Video by Brice Douglas

    Video by Terry Douglas

    Video by Troy Gladle

    Video by Graham Zielinski

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    Historical clips

    Great YouTube videos

    Drone videos

    Freight train under darkness near Anchorage (12/29/21)

    Case wheel loader using a notched piece of steel to clear ice, snow and mud from the rail in the Whittier yard (12/16/22)

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    This page was created 12/9/99 and last updated 9/19/24