Hello group. New guy here to this group. Planning a vacation to Alsaka sometime this year. We were planning to come at the end of August but I see that is your...
August can be our monsoon month here around Fairbanks. Personally, I like May. I get better chances of sunny days then. I feel you can shoot the E-W stuff...
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My wife went to a dinner Tuesday night at the restaurant at the top of the Hilton Hotel in Anchorage and took a couple of pictures of the action in the flats...
... That looks like a rail grinding train to me, but I have no particular information on the units. Some of those trains have heavily modified FPH40s. That is...
That is a nice photo from the Hilton. Does anyone know about the container operation over there? Looks like a MP15 pulling a load of containers on flatcars on...
... It is an MP15..either pushing or pulling a string of flats. The photo was reduced about 40% to make it more Yahoo friendly..if anyone wants the full sized...
There is a barge dock out there. I think it is Northland Marine Lines. The bring in containers and I think I recall they bring in most of the lumber and...
Hello All! I'm looking for the whereabouts of two Amtrak Budd Dining Cars that went to the Alaska Railroad here a few years ago. I believe they were numbered...
Chris Williams <cwilliamssouth@...> wrote: Hello All! I'm looking for the whereabouts of two Amtrak Budd Dining Cars that went to the Alaska Railroad...
... On February 22, Stewart Sterling sent me this message, "Just a note that I [was at] Alaska Metal recyclers and did not see the two [ex-Amtrak] stainless ex...
A good selection of Alaska Railroad art prints are currently listed on E-Bay. 1987,1993,1995,1994,1996,2000 and the First Annniv. of state ownership...
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And where exactly did the two signal lights go that were at the Dimond Ave. overpass in Anchorage? One week they get turned inward, the next week there gone...
I am looking for pictures of the MAPCO Tank cars? Either the real pictures or good detail pictures of a Customed model. Is there anyone out there that can help...
Nice image of 2 SD70 MAC on ballast train on e-bay! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=6616684003&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:UK:11 Thanks to Pat...
Bob, your photo does the colors justice. I finally received Mts. Susitna and Iliamna today. If I had not special ordered it from a local hobby shop (before I...
Bob and others. I have addressed the issue of the wrong blue with Branchline and included paint samples and chips from the Lake Minchumina. The cars as...
Hey All, Just asking if you would all keep a railroading friend in your prayers, A conductor for the UP, was involved in a tragic and unavoidable accident this...
Well that's too bad. They should have kept it and used it for HEP on the Daily Whittier Pass. runs. Oh, well too many HEP units on the roster I guess....
Has the unit actually left Alaska yet? ... From: "arrphoto" <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> To: <arrrailfans@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 11:25 PM ...
No, they are waiting shipping instructions. 1503 is an F7B, and was the only F unit not sold when the F's where purged from the roster in 1986. It was...
I don't remember when it happened, I'm thinking 2000-2003, I was next the 1503 when something happened to the HEP. The Cruise Train was loading passengers and...
In 2001 an emergency stop (trespassers) flattened all four wheelsets, three of which were too skinny to turn. At that time it went into an Out of Service...