Big Train, Bigger Country

Big Train, Bigger Country

Twin SD70MACs lead a 5409 ton and 7526 foot long 120S freight southbound destined to Whittier and a date with ARMS barge voyage 1144. This monster train consists of 70 loads and 39 empties including 95 containers (most of which are empty) all of which will be loaded on the barge for the week long voyage to the Seattle. The train is twisting along the icy shore of Turnagain Arm near MP 83 just north of Brookman siding. Rising beyond are the snow bedecked peaks of the Chugach Range and the massive bulwark of Bird Ridge.

South of Anchorage, Alaska
Saturday November 5, 2011

Photo courtesy of Dave Blazejewski