ANCHORAGE (KTUU) It's being called the year of the locals. At least that's what the Alaska Railroad is hoping when it comes to passengers filling up its rail cars, but before customers get on board, germs need to come off.

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Starting July 1, the Alaska Railroad will combine the Hurricane Turn Flagstop train service with the Denali Star summer service.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - 149 employees in the tourism industry will find themselves out of work due to COVID-19.

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In another blow to Alaska’s struggling economy, Princess Cruises and Holland America Line are canceling Gulf of Alaska sailings for the entire season as the cruise industry grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Alaska Railroad Corp. turned a solid profit of $21.6 million last year on improved freight business, but along with countless businesses and industries the railroad’s prospects for 2020 are uncertain at best given the global economic disruption brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Alaska Railroad on Friday announced that it is delaying the start of summer passenger service to July in response to the new coronavirus pandemic.

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In the past, before the coronavirus, the conversation in an active Facebook group for residents of Whittier was dominated by the chitchat of small town Alaska life: Reports of bears eating out of the trash bin, offers of free used treadmills for giveaway, a recitation of the nightly dinner special at the Anchor Inn.

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