2001 Pictures of the Week
|
Date
|
Photographer
|
Photograph
|
| 01/01 |
Jeff DeBrock |
Princess cars were formerly owned by Tom Rader's Tour
Alaska company |
| 01/08 |
E. D. Motis |
SD70MAC's are still 20 years in the future as ARR
3003 & 1506 await their call. Anchorage, 11/19/80 |
| 01/15 |
John Combs |
Kicking off John's review of MATI in Wasilla is a photo of no. 1500 at the museum. June 2000 |
| 01/22 |
John BienKiewicz |
John (from Canberra, Australia) sent this fall
foliage photo from his September 2000 Alaska trip |
| 01/29 |
Malcolm Brown |
"London babe" 4001 and "Altoona babe" 4008 sharing
the fueling racks in the Anchorage Yard, 1/12/01 |
| 02/05 |
Paul Birkholz |
Paul captures a coal train waiting in
the yard at Seward after unloading overnight. 2000 |
| 02/12 |
Clara Elge |
The Jolly Roger flag on caboose 1078
at the top of mile 12 hill at Divide heading into Seward. |
| 02/19 |
E.D. Motis |
The rail terminal at Whittier hosts EMD's unique GP49s
and two GP40 sisters. 5/17/96 |
| 02/26 |
Bill Waller |
Caboose 1019 is part of a hotel in Titusville,
PA 8/1/00 |
| 03/05 |
Barry Lowe |
1) Tie inserter/extractor with a tie crane,
2) Patrick Lowe operating the tie crane South of Sheep Creek . Summer of
2000 |
| 03/12 |
A. H. Morscher |
The ballast train headed by leased unit
NREX 2002 and ARR GP40-2 3006. Denali Park 7/6/97 |
| 03/19 |
Ed Cooper |
Car knocker perched on the front of F7A #1526 1976-1978? |
| 03/26 |
Robert Garner |
Alaska Railroad gondola in Iowa. 1/27/01 |
| 04/02 |
Clara Elge |
Business car on loan. Seward 2000 |
| 04/09 |
James de Broeck |
Night time beside the Anchorage shop. 3/31/01 |
| 04/16 |
Charles O'Herin |
Royal Caribbean railcars at the King
Street Station in Seattle prior to being transferred to the barge by BNSF.
3/29/01 |
| 04/23 |
Casey Durand |
At the Palmer branch, just past the wye, GP
49 #2803 and 5,000+ foot Pioneer Peak . Fall 2000 |
| 04/30 |
Bill Navari |
Budd built stainless steel coach #5200 . |
| 05/07 |
E. D. Motis |
EMD's classic F & E units never looked
better than in this view at Anchorage. July 1985 |
| 05/14 |
Ed Cooper |
As daylight quickly slips away, FP7 #1510 waits in Eklutna siding for another train to pass. 1977 |
| 05/21 |
Ken Brovald |
Two color matched FP7s roll the Denali Express
through the interior in the summer of 1981. |
| 05/28 |
Ken Reuben |
A military Dodge Power Wagon fitted as a hi-rail
car. Whittier 1944-45 |
| 06/04 |
Malcolm Brown |
A coal train about 2 miles north of Girdwood
with SD70MACs. 4/11/00 |
| 06/11 |
E.D. Motis |
Alaska Railroad lineup at the Anchorage shops,
7/19/80. |
| 06/18 |
Ken Brovald |
On a bitter cold February 1976 day, RSD4 1605 crosses Chester Creek bridge in Anchorage enroute to Whittier. |
| 06/25 |
Clara Elge |
Derailment on the trestle is in Moose Pass
and the bridge is over the end of Upper Trail Lake. |
| 07/02 |
Paul Birkholz |
The southbound Coastal Classic passes over the
trestle at the south end of the lake at Moose Pass. |
| 07/09 |
Ken Reuben |
A 2-8-0 number #577 at Whittier in 1944-45. |
| 07/16 |
Malcolm Brown |
Taken in Seward in May of 2000. This is the daily passenger
train at that runs from Anchorage to Seward. |
| 07/23 |
Ken Brovald |
The camera captured this archetypal Alaska winter scene of a trio
of GP's hustling a Ski train on the Seward line in March 1980. |
| 07/30 |
E.D. Motis |
Approaching Portage, AK, GP40-2 3012 & GP35
2502 are heading to rails end at Whittier. 8/11/81. |
| 08/06 |
Paul Birkholz |
Northbound on the Denali Star on July
6th, 2000 between Cantwell and Denali Park Station. |
| 08/13 |
Ken Reuben |
Brill #215 was usually paired with trailer
#304 starting in 1939. Trailer #304 was converted from a Brill Model 75
(No M107) in 1939. |
| 08/20 |
John Combs |
Steam engine #557 is now owned by Monte Holm
in Moses Lake, WA. July 2001. |
| 08/27 |
Ian |
Rebuild and repaint of GP40-2 numbers 3013, 3014 and 3015 at National Railway Equipment in Dixmoor,
Illinois. July 2001 |
| 09/03 |
Andy Tejral |
RDCs heading off into the sunset at Ship Creek.
8/9/01 |
| 09/10 |
John Quan |
GP-49 #2801 catches the reflection of the sun
as it travels along Turnagain Arm. 6/01 |
| 09/17 |
Bill Ledbetter |
The train is southbound just north of the Denali
depot, and the locomotives have just cleared the grade crossing. 8/31/01 |
| 09/24 |
Shane Durand |
After returning from refurbishment and repainting in Dixmoor, IL, no. 3014 is ready to get back to work. Whittier 9/13/01 |
| 10/01 |
Shane Durand |
The ARRC unloads its new weed burner from the barge in Whittier. 9/13/01 |
| 10/08 |
Marty Quaas |
MRS1, 1718, USAF 80 ton, high cube box and regular box car arrive at MATI near Wasilla. 10/6/01 |
| 10/15 |
Don Coppola |
Number 1508 finds a home in Palmer, Massachsetts.
The photos dates are 11/95 (top) and 10/94 (bottom). |
| 10/22 |
Steve Noland |
Although I am fond of its old paint scheme, the recent rebuild/repaint means
my fav loco will be around for many more
years. 10/17/01 |
| 10/29 |
Shane Durand |
The Anchorage Provider, one of three new rail
barges, docked in Whittier and ready for unloading. 9/01 |
| 11/05 |
Shane Durand |
Four GP-49s pulling a long southbound freight.
8/7/01 |
| 11/12 |
Clara Elge |
Power line workers tried to haul some heavy equipment on a low boy trailer
over the tracks at the old entrance
to the Crown Point siding. |
| 11/19 |
Jack Klingbeil |
Number 1016 on a turntable
in Seward |
| 11/26 |
E.D. Motis |
Head End Power (HEP) equipped GP40-2 no. 3010 lead ARR's business car Denali at Turnagain Arm. |
| 12/03 |
Karl Hovanitz |
A view of 1510 in its fresh
black and yellow paint scheme at Mt. McKinley Park Depot. (June 1973) |
| 12/10 |
Ken Reuben |
RS-1 numbers 1001 and 1000 at the head of
a freight train (Whittier 1944-45) |
| 12/17 |
Pat Durand |
E9-A number 2401 at the Anchorage
Depot and in front of the Anchorage Diesel House in 1985. |
| 12/24 |
Matt McCullor |
SD70MAC number 4001 celebrates
the holiday season with a wreath. 12/21/01 |
| 12/31 |
Robert Krol |
The Aurora car on the Seward dock.
This train was 11 passenger cars long, P-30 power car, 2803 and the 2002."
(6/8/01) |
