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Ford Explorer of ARR Police
Rotary #3 Engineering
Drawing
Eklutna pit
Loading the ballast train
Work train at MP 246
Spreading ballast
Tamper and ballast regulator
Jordan Spreader
MOW gas cars
Re-railing truck #292
Pulling fines out of pit
Loading rip rap at Bear Valley
Work train at Nenana
Work train at Birchwood
Work train at Spencer Creek
Bridge
Plow car spreading ballast
Loading rip rap at Eklutna
Replacing ties
Locomotive crane #108
CM3 Trackmobile
Unloading ties
Ballast Regulator BR-20
Electro-graphic Tamper ET-17
Electro-graphic Tamper ET-18
MOW bus
Small tamper
Weed burner
Rotary
#3 clearing snow
The Black Maria
Plow SN-1
Second ballast plow car
Rotary #2 Engineering
Drawing
Brush Cutter
Rotary #3 in old paint scheme
Russell Plow
Russell Plow
Locomotive crane #58
Picking up equipment at the
Portage wye
Cement truck and locomotive crane of Knik River Bridge
Locomotive crane #55
Locomotive crane #110
Picking up excavator at
Indian
Beautiful summer evening
at Denali Park
Picking up cars on a misty
evening in Healy
Work train at the first
tunnel northbound at 51.8
Rotary #1 assisted by two locomotives
and two cabooses Engineering
Drawing
Russell plow in front
of the old Curry Hotel
Switch maintainers removing
snow in -39° F in Fairbanks
Jordan Spreader #1
and caboose #1039 in early 1960's
MOW train at Sunrise on
Beluga Point
LC-105 cutting back an
embankment
Spreader 7 and 8 travel
to Seward remove ice build up and snow
Spreader number 8 derailed just
north of Denali Park
Realignment at
Fort Richardson
Picking up ties in Portage
Spreader number 5
Rotary at Curry
(1948)
Bridges and Buildings
company truck
Snowfleet
at Montana
Cat 320C Self propelled
Excavator
Work train crossing Riley Creek
bridge in Denali Park
Garner line change
Delivering new concrete ties
Rotary #4
Purcell security truck
Russell #3 at Curry
BR21
Jet Snow Blower
Tie inserter
inserting ties
Early spreader (1920s)
Steam shovel
working at Eklutna
Mogul work train
Ohlson's MOW car
Big rock blocking
the train
Locomotive crane #37
Locomotive crane #57
Rotary #4
Railgrinder
Kershaw Tie Handlers/Cranes
Fairmont Tamper
Fuel tank on a trailer
Racine
Anchor Spreader
Nordco Rail Lifter
TR-10
Bird Flat avalanche
Slaying the ice
dragons
Brushcutter at Girdwood
Air dumps at Garner
Tunnel
Rotten ice
Ditcher chasing a
moose
Winter morning at
Portage
Regulator being turned
around
Bear near an outfit
car
Flood of 1986
Breakup of the big Susitna
River
Rock slide at Garner
Tunnel
Derailment of jet fuel at Dunbar
Gas car Dome
Grandview avalanche
Crane with shovel
Montana Creek flood
(1986)
Moon over Garner
Tunnel
Passenger car
derailment at Carlo
Looking out of
the spreader window
Mistimed the passenger train
Moose on Susitna River and McKinley at MP-233
Punching through a sluff in Indian River canyon
Plowing a drift in Whittier
Plowing snow with
the Ballast Regulator
Rotary and Spreader - Main track is between them
Saving a moose that fell through
the ties on a bridge
Summit MP 310
Warming clawbars at 30
below
Snowfleet mishap
MOW tender 0034
MOW tender 0039
Former hospital car combine
P-24
Former troop sleeper
Former troop kitchen
Wreck Service Kitchen Car
#0019
X-646E water car
X-648E water car
X-657E water car
X-1824 bunk car
BLM
surveying helicopter
Bridge
inspection at Hurricane Gulch
Building Hurricane
House Track
Kenny and Dave
Cab ornament
The Rock
Charlie Stoll
in Whittier
Curry Hotel
The down tie crew
Dome section house
Finding the
rail
Emergency shelter
at Grandview
Dunbar derailment
Fire pots
First use of sidebooms
Governor
Knowles getting a spiking lesson
Inspecting track
Kenny blowing
a switch
Laying panels after
a derailment
Large rock between
tunnels #2 and #3
Loading dozer on
lowboy
Loading M-19
Loading ties
Maintenance of
Way employees at breakfast - Healy Hotel
Measuring
clearances in Whittier Tunnel
Nitrogen powered Avalauncher
Operator error
Plowing Talkeetna siding with
a "full wing" on the Jordan Spreader
Regulator
derailed
Regulator
going up Chulitna Hill - McKinley in the background
Removing
pocket track in Anchorage
Bob
and Ron in outfit car
Rough Seas
Setting
new bridge at Kashwitna
LC-109 with 40 foot spreader bar
BC-02 self propelled cribber
BR-20 with snow equipment
BR-21 at Whittier Sawmill track
Caboose 1074
CM-3 at Palmer Branch distributing rail
Setting up
the tamper
Spraying
weeds 1977
Surveying tracks
Tie
gang lunch break
Tunnel #2
Tunnel
collapse
Tunnel rehab
crew
Undercutter
Washout
at the top of the Loop
Kershaw brush mower
Curry
rock quarry
Russell plow sold for scrap
MoW tender #0039M
MoW equipment on Bird Point
LC #107
MOW Gondolas
No. 651E
Ballast Regulator
Susitna river work train
Rotary #3
Work train near Healy
MOW equipment in Seattle
Rotary #4
MoW equipment at Hurricane
MoW train at Indian Creek
Kershaw KBP 200 Mini Ballast Regulator
Nordco Spike Puller
Kershaw Tie Crane
Anchor spreader
Nordco tie inserter
Plater
Anchor machine
Nordco spike driver
Two work trains passing through Talkeetna
Friendly work train
Rotary 3 interior
MoW car #75
Low Boy #4
Water car #682E
Spreader 7 (1993)
Tool car #0052
Jordan spreader #3 (1952)
Connaboose
Railvac
Wheel change at Portage
Snowfleet at Broad Pass
MOW at Hurricane
Daylighting Divide Tunnel
Welded rail gang
Cat EX 8 ready to roll through Whittier tunnel back to Portage
Ed Rosek working at Tunnel section
MOW rail gang's equipment to change out rail at the Whittier tunnel
Laying cable at Potter
MOW car #1214C (1979)
Pandrol Jackson tamper
Kershaw ballast regulator
TrackMobile
MOW hoppers viewed from the Hurricane Turn
String-lined flat cars
Spreader 7 in Seward
Unusual MOW equipment
Rotary #3 in Anchorage
Rotary #3
B&B’s high car for tunnel work
Continuous Welded Rail's welding plant
Five Geeps on the company work train
Rotary #3 in the Anchorage yard
MOW returning from Nenana canyon
Cat D6N in Talkeetna
Short work train (1959-1962)
Avalanche cleanup
Boxcar with a garage door
Number 95900 used in wrecker service
Home built ballast spreader
Trackmobile Hercules CM-6
MOW equipment at Portage
Ballast Regulator 32
Ballast Regulator 16
Montana Creek bridge
Gas Cars
Company work train
Adding reinforcements to the bridge across Ship Creek
Tender 0034
Company work train near Seward
New track geometry car
Rotary 3
FRA checking gauge on the Alaska Railroad
Brush cutting near Seward
New switch for north end of Cantwell siding
Loading 30,000 pounds of ties in Whittier
Maintenance of Way train at Talkeetna
Cantwell snowfleet
Maintenance of Way Train at Talkeetna #2
Brandt R4 Railcar Mover
Continuous welded rail MOW train
New track geometry car
End of the line for the Russell Plow 3/10/10
MOW hopper at Rudd Spur
Moving rock
Outfit Car 1504E
Outfit Car 1571E
Next stop Colorado
Spreader #6
Ballast regulator spotted on Fort Richardson
Rotary #3
Icicle breaker
LORAM Rail Vac at MP 345.1
Tie Replacement Crew
UP #4269 as part of a MoW train
See also:
- Alaska Railroad 2014 open house
- Ballast spreader and placard
- Spike puller and placard
- Tamper and placard
- Tie remover and placard
- Engineering drawings
The information on this page was last updated 7/31/24