| Steamers
auction Hurricane Turn tickets -
8/29/10 |
| The Alaska Live Steamers
are auctioning two
tickets on a reserved passenger coach on the
Hurricane Turn on October 7. Please note 100%
of the auction winnings go towards the event
to
support
the
Alaska Live Steamers 501(c)3 mission. You'll
find the listing is under ebay item #120614821984. |
| HO scale
S-160 survey update - 8/24/10 |
| Attention Steam Fans! Your
input is needed in determining the potential
market for an HO scale ready to run version of the
US Army Transportation Corp. S-160 consolidation
2-8-0 locomotive. For the
latest project status report click here. |
| Do you know what eventually
happened to #902? - 8/14/10 |
| Railfan Andrew Donaldson
is trying to discover the disposal details for steam
locomotive #902. If any of you historians can shed
a little light on this then please forward your
info on to me. |
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| Whittier barge slip towers
removed - 8/17/10 |
| It is indeed the end of
an era - the Whittier barge slip towers, which stood
for almost 50 years, were removed and replaced with
an hydraulic system. More |
| ARRC selects 2011 poster artist
- 8/14/10 |
| Palmer artist Douglas Girard
was selected to create the artwork for the 2011
ARRC poster. He proposed to portray freight train
crossing the Matanuska River Bridge.For more information
see the ARRC
Community Ties. |
| ARRC to purchase ERP system
- 8/6/10 |
| An IT audit found the core
administrative systems lagging behind industry standards
and suggested ARRC would benefit from implementing
a modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Therefore the ARRC put out an invitation to bid
on it. More |
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