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Rosters: I could use help on descriptions for these photos: F7 #1506 heads up an ABA configuration on a passenger train, #1514 heads up a passenger train, Anchorage, F7 #1510 heads up a passenger train and F7 #1512 with passenger train. - 4/18/25Rosters: Eagle eyed Dylan Robert caught the Usibelli coal turn with the 100th anniversary SD70MAC. - 4/18/25Rosters: Frank Keller catches the export coal on Turnagain Arm. - 4/18/25Rosters: Aurora aerial view by Bill Hess. - 4/18/25News: Alaska Railroad golden spike on display - 4/18/25Modeling: Rick works on the new Anchorage stub tracks on my HO Alaska Railroad layout. - 4/18/25Rosters: Bill Hess captures tank car infinity in Wasilla. - 4/15/25Rosters: I am back to working on the William Gibson negatives. Here are three that I already had online, but was able scan and supersize them: 313, 503, 505. Here are two new ones: 1074 cab interior and passenger car 86. - 4/15/25
Rosters: Sincere thanks to Shane Durand for all the photos he scanned from the Durand collection. Here are some final photos: Anchorage yard, circa 1980s, Anchorage depot, 1980s, GP38 #2003 with a baggage car wedged between two cabooses, passenger train forging through the snow and GP40 #3017. - 4/14/25Rosters: Jonathan Fischer, our eyes and ears in Seattle, spotted well and flat cars ready to load on the barge for a trip to Whittier. - 4/14/25Picture of the Week: This is Whittier - 4/14/25Stories: I was just sitting here thinking you fine folks don't have enough Alaska Railroad photos to gaze upon. So here is a nice bunch of photos from Mike Sypult's August 2024 trip to fill your addiction. - 4/13/25Rosters: I love to display large photos. It is almost like you could reach out and touch GP #3005! Here is Afternoon Portraits of Snowfleet.- 4/13/25Rosters: Patrick Durand was able to provide more information on dates and other information on the photos of #1502 at TwentyMile and #1510 at the Anchorage Depot. I think everyone loves a mystery. - 4/12/25Modeling: More scenery work, tunnel portal wings and a new turnout on my HO Alaska Railroad layout. - 4/11/25Rosters: Frank Keller accesses his super secret trail to reach an incredible vantage point with his drone to capture the Hurricane Turn at Hurricane Gulch. - 4/9/25Video: Steve Katkus caught the work train at Pittman. - 4/11/25Historical: Mike Gerenday took photos of the Harbor Train Station in Seward three months before it was torn down. What a nice way to preserve its history. - 4/10/25Historical: Adding Message from President, The Report of the Alaska Railroad cover July 1, 1924 to June 30, 1925 - 4/10/25Rosters: Frank Keller catches a rip rap train at Bird Point - 4/9/25Freight/Passenger: Well cars 19302, 19304 and 19305. - 4/8/25Rosters: GP7 #1802 was an ex Army brat, acquired in 1976 and given the gate in 2001. This Durand Collection photo shows #1802 only a few years after it was acquired. - 4/7/25Rosters: Many thanks to Frank Keller for forwarding on these photos of #1502 at TwentyMile and #1510 at the Anchorage Depot. Can someone make a guess as to the date the photos were taken? - 4/7/25Rosters: I don't have any photos (yet), but there is a new South Siding Switch (SSS), Tunnel at the Kenai Subdivision at MP 50.62, 1845 feet in length. - 4/7/25Rosters: Robert Krol sent us from photos of the new bridge at Bird Creek. Yes! - 4/7/25Picture of the Week: Glacier Discovery 2005 - 4/7/25Modeling: Many thanks to Randy Thompson for bird dogging these new N scale Point St. Charles cabooses! - 4/4/25Freight/Passenger: Vincent Delaquito captured one of the old 14850 series covered hoppers in Grande Prairie, Alberta. - 4/4/25Modeling: Road bed ballast work and the installation of a new yard turnout on my HO Alaska Railroad layout. - 4/4/25News: Alaska Railroad's Easter Train - 4/2/25No.
557 Info: The March Engine 557 Restoration Company Progress Report - 4/2/25Admin: Does anyone remember many years ago when I pulled an April Fools Day joke by announcing on the main page I was shutting down the website forever? I had multiple people fall for my little gag. I was just thinking back on it today and it made me laugh. - 4/1/25