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...
Well tell the ARR to put some new wheels on it and keep it. ... wheelsets, three of which were ... (OOS) status. Don't know if ... and storage once it ... ...
If you think about it selling the unit makes sense. If you have a units that you are not going to use and you need to pay a rebuilder for the units that they...
... Kevin, I don't have anything new. I got to the railbelt the same year these cars became part of the hotel. I never actually saw them in service. However,...
Thanks, Jason! I am just going to paint out the existing blue bands to a more "oxidized" royal blue for the park station hotel. As I remember them ('74-'77)...
The three photos I have access to show all three Pullman cars clearly labeled " Department of Transportation" I am currently working with Curt Fortenberry to...
Hello group, I am a railfan living currently living in central Maine. I will be working this summer in Alaska, shipping along the coast between the Inner...
Chris, I surprised no one has mentioned to go look at John Comb's site. www.alaskarails.org I believe he has some railfan information. Curt Fortenberry...
What Curt said. Additionally www.railroadforums.com just started a railfanning section, with 'stickied' descriptions of places, and I started throwing together...
Thanks for all the info everybody. I am still left with a few questions. 1) What track speed does the ARR maintain? 2) Is there any interchange points besides...
I still have a maximum speed of 49 listed in my railfan timetables. -Alan Liesse- Albany Spotter (OR) emd_16645 <emd_16645@...> wrote: Thanks for all the...
FYI Easter train this weekend 4/15/06 http://www.akrr.com/arrc39.html leaves the station around 11:00 am to Portage and back. (one of last years pics) ...
After looking at the photos on John's site. Is it to be understood that the 2 cars were suppose to go to Atlantic and Western and didn't? By the looks of it...
All, For any who may be interested, there are 2 brass locomotives on Ebay that are suitable for the Alaska Railroad. One is an L-9 0-6-0 which will make into #...
There is an 8-mile section of track just north of Anchorage that has been upgraded to 60mph due to the ongoing track straightening and the implementation of...
On Saturday, May 6, from 11 AM to 4 PM, the Alaska Railroad will host its Public Open House with equipment displays, train rides, a band, lots of hot dogs and...
Hi! This is just to let everyone know on the ARR railfans website that I have started a new website of my own of all the Alaska Railroad photographs that I...
I was up in Laramie last Saturday and just west of the UP tracks on WY 230 is an F7B unit. It is Mountain Diesel Transportation 1511. It was used on the ...
Thanks for the heads-up, I didn't realize that the old B was still sitting there. I'd seen it years ago, but assumed that with the branch being unused that it...
... Nathan, Do you also know the DRGW number(s) of the 1530. It also survived on the ARR until 1985. I think it threw a rod through the block and was ...
Does the ARRC have a fueling pad up in Fairbanks similar to the Anchorage facility? Do they do any regular fueling in FBX, or is it just topping off with a...
I am looking for a set of blueprint drawings and measurements for the ARR 19400 series cars. These are ex BC Rail 3-unit flat cars, each unit able to carry a...
I recall a full page photo several years back in Trains Magazine of a coal train negotiating the horseshoe curve underneath Bartlett Glacier on the line to...
I've only been through the area on train, and I don't know that I would call that hiker friendly territory, or if there is even a trail that you can hike all...
Hey Chris, I work at Alaska West Express (AML) and I off load those cars all the time I can get good detail pics of them for you, but the drawings I cant help...
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