Does anyone have pictures of a bridge crossing over the Mat-Su river? I'm working on a N Scale Module and would like to use Kato bridges to model the crossing....
Are you talking about the one that is the double truss bridge with long trestle approach? If so I do. It's from the early 1980's, before the tree growth...
I don't have a specific bridge in mind. I was up in Alaska during the 80's and remember a railroad bridge that cross a river just south of Wasilla. It had...
Hey I was wondering, I am going to start to repower my older Athearn units and was wondering if anybody had suggestions on what to use. I was thinking about...
Hi Mike I have used A-Line motors in several Athearn's. They do run a little better and draw less current, however I have decided that in the future, unless I...
... was a water scoop. Of course they were running mainly diesels by the time I was born but growing up along the N&W mainline, I would think I would have...
Athearn has announced a re-run of the "Ready to run" wide vision caboose numbered 1090; Item 7512 $14.98 due April 04. http://www.athearn.com/aa/WVCab0104.jpg ...
The Athearn caboose is bogus for anything ARR (and most other railroads, I believe it's a Rock Island design). But there is apparently a market for this. If...
... Gas pipeline deal could help pay for railroad upgrades The Alaska Railroad Corp. says it would need to upgrade its track and traffic capacity to handle the...
Hi there, Did the ARR get any upgrades during the Trans-Pipeline boom days? I was crawling around in pipes that were stored in Whittier in those days. I'm...
They went from a fleet of mostly F-7's to GP40-2's. I'd call that an upgrade :) I've never heard anyone talk about system upgrades. There may have been some...
Let me list the upgrades the ARR did from the pipeline boom. Many of them were necessary to handle the traffic. Most of these upgrades were funded from the...
Hi there, The rebuilding of the older GPs has been on going for a couple of years. I was driving over the C street bridge the other day. There was a loco...
I didn't consider these as they were mostly early 80's projects, and the pipeline was completed in 77. I did overlook the Paducah rebuilds and the surplus...
They even bought four little GE 45 tonner side rod diesels which I believe shuffled the 80' long pipe on flats onto barges in Valdez which were unloaded at...
...read this: http://www.mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19792 interesting, that's why CN boughth BC Rail right... ? steve w. "nscalesteve"...
found this today in the largescale forum and thought this may interest us here... copy from the tread: Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski today proposed that...
The Copper River and Northwestern terminated at Cordova, not Valdez. I don't believe there were any existing tracks in Valdez, but that Alyeska or one of their...
I would be surprised if it had anything to do with it. The probability of this happening is pretty small, and it will certainly take along time before traffic...
... rebuilds ... right ... I mentioned these things, because they were funded largely from the pipeline generated cash flow. I think the contract for the HEP ...
... There ... That's good to hear, because the ARR cancelled a bid for rebuilding some GP-s including the 3005 which apparently has a cracked engine block....
I put a shot of the trestle and bridge across the Matanuska River in the files section. I inadvertantly called it the Knik crossing, and merged the text with...
... I believe they went to a tourist operation in Arizona or Mexico. I am glad I forwarded that little news item about the gas pipeline. It has led to a...
... I have been trying to put together a section about this for two years. All I am waiting for now is a few photos of the operations from a fellow railfan....
I didn't arrive until 1982 so I missed the construction but why were the sections of welded pipe brought to Whittier rather than trucking them up the...
John, thanks for the additional info and explanation from Frank Dewey. ... Where did the pipe go after reaching Whittier from Valdez (if I have that right)? I...
As to the question, Why was the pipe processed in Valdez and then sent via barge to Whittier? You must first grasp the scope of the pipeline project and the...
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