2003 Pictures of the Week
Date
|
Photographer
|
Photograph
|
01/06 |
Robert Krol |
A four photo mosiac shows snowy leased
Amtrak units and 16 cylinder EMD engines on a flat car for a possible rebuild.
Jan. 2003 |
01/13 |
John Cummings |
Three photos of rotary #2. The left shots (1, 2) are Anchorage, August 1959.
The right shot is Anchorage, September
1959. |
01/20 |
Unknown |
Number 1826 is shown here
in Whittier during September 1968. MATI photo collection, L.98.4.22 |
01/27 |
Brian Miller |
A typical family rail trip to Seward ends with a photo of son
and massive locomotive 3011. Summer 2002 |
02/03 |
Casey Durand |
No. 2008 with the
Whittier Shuttle exiting portal 3 into Bear Valley on 4/3/99. This
was the last season of the Whittier/Portage shuttle train. |
02/10 |
Rich Holzapfel |
Work train engine no. 3007 in Whittier
during one of their rare sunny days. Fall 2002 |
02/17 |
Albert Bailey |
Steamer 802 in front of Roundhouse Curry
in 1950 |
02/24 |
Rich Holzapfel |
Rich, an ARR extra Gang Foreman, paces his work
train locomotives at MP 310. Fall 2002 |
03/03 |
Jennifer McCullor |
A first class helicopter view of the Anchorage
Yard. 2/16/03 |
03/10 |
Albert Bailey |
Two passenger extra trains meeting at
Windy. 1950s |
03/17 |
E. D. Motis |
The Ford pickups "keep on truckin" behind ARR GP49's 2807
and 2808, Anchorage 7/17/94. |
03/24 |
Nathan Holmes |
Two brand new McKinley Explorer railcars as they travel through the stunning Colorado scenery on their way to Alaska.
March 2003 |
03/31 |
Lukas Lusser |
A mixed freight train rounding Turnagain
Arm south of Potter on July 16, 1990. |
04/07 |
Bob Yost |
Three F units and a rotary in the Anchorage
yard. |
bonus |
Albert Bailey |
Snow fleet (two 550 class locomotives
and a spreader) heading south out of Tunnel in 1951 |
04/14 |
Jim Somerville |
Jim Somerville's aerial photo clearly shows a section of the new alignment. If you want to see an uncluttered version then
click here. 3/16/03 |
04/21 |
Steve Noland |
A new McKinley Explorer railcar being
loaded onto an Alaskan bound barge in Seattle on April 16, 2003. Click here for a wider view. |
04/28 |
Keith Ardinger |
A fully loaded rock train at Palmer.
Notice the old Department of Transportation logo on the nose of the locomotive.
September 1980 |
05/05 |
Albert Bailey |
A local freight headed north, stopped
at Nancy Lake. |
05/12 |
Jack Klinbeil |
Placing a passenger coach down onto
the Tanana River ice for service to North Nenana run, winter of 1920.
Before the Tanana River Bridge was built, the river ice was used to transport
cars and freight. In the earliest days, when the Tanana Valley Railroad
was narrow gauge, they actually transferred freight on the ice, offloading
standard car freight onto a narrow gauge car. Alaska Railroad photograph,
Jack Klingbeil Collection. |
05/19 |
E. D. Motis |
Number 3051, Alaska Railroad's failed attempt
of making a GP40-2 from a GP35. Anchorage 7/18/80. |
05/26 |
Jim Somerville |
Aerial view of the Seward
coal terminal. 2002 |
06/02 |
Steven Brown |
Somber colors mark this photo of a southbound
train prior to departure at Fairbanks. February 6, 1994 |
06/09 |
Matt McCullor |
Three new leased locomotives stick out
like a sore thumb in the Anchorage yard. 6/8/03 |
06/16 |
Jeff Lubchansky |
SD70MAC number 4005 in the final stages of production in Altoona, PA. 1/9/00 |
06/23 |
Vincent Shen |
A pair of Whittier train scene photos (1, 2) |
06/30 |
John Henderson |
Spreading ballast at Ship Creek flats,
Anchorage 6/25/69 |
07/07 |
Unknown |
New cab control car GP50 #31. It will
have locomotive controls to act like a lead locomotive, but it has no traction
motors and no prime mover. June 2003 |
07/14 |
Unknown |
Mate 2 in Anchorage. 3/14/77 |
07/21 |
Jack Klingbeil |
The MACs that Jack built - Two 1.7 scale SD70MACs at Furrow Creek, Live Steamer's track, Wasilla 6/3/03 |
07/28 |
Wayland Ferreira |
The Denali Star passes through Healy
Canyon. June 2003 |
08/04 |
David Reed |
Alaska Railroad main line grade crossing,
Clear AFS access road from the Parks Highway. July 1993 at 4:30 a.m. |
08/11 |
Mark Lembersky |
A spotlessly clean number 3011 in the lead
on a wintry day at the Anchorage Yard. Spring 2003 |
08/11 |
Bob Focht |
New cab control unit number 31 in the Anchorage
engine house. 8/9/03 |
08/18 |
Tony Roof |
Numbers 3011 and 3010 in Seward amidst
the fireweed. July 2003 |
08/25 |
Pat Durand |
An HO scale diorama of the Nenana
Depot wins Best of Show at the Alaska State Fair. August 2003 |
09/01 |
Curt Fortenberry |
Cruise ship tourist arrive at the airport via the Alaska Railroad. 8/30/93 |
09/08 |
Rich Holzapfel |
Picking up an excavator at Indian.
What a beautiful place to work! Summer 2003. |
09/15 |
Pat Durand |
A retouched photograph of number 502 at Nenana Depot. 2003 |
09/22 |
Pat Durand |
A double ended cruise ship train (from the airport to Seward) at Potter Section House on 7/703. |
09/29 |
Curt Fortenberry |
North Pole's 50th anniversary dinner
train at the Chena River. 9/27/03 |
10/06 |
Martin Baumann |
My favorite lady, number 3015 as part of a passenger train passing through Talkeetna on July 14, 2003. |
10/13 |
Mike Ferguson |
Number 4001 at the south end of the Fairbanks
yard on the Noyes slough bridge on the September 20, 2003. |
10/20 |
Thomas Smith |
Troop sleeper #116 and some old
style ARR containers on flat cars.
1970 |
10/27 |
Andy Tejral |
A roadworthy cab control car # 32 at MacHugh Creek trailing the Whittier train. 9/3/03 |
11/03 |
Pat Durand |
Late season 80 car coal train behind numbers 3001,
Leasing Corp 2275 and 3004. 9/27/03 |
11/10 |
Rich Holzapfel |
Last of their kind at Portage, work
train cabooses. Also work train
equipment at mile 16.6. September 2003 |
11/17 |
John Bagley |
The Glacier Discovery train in the tunnel
district on August 13, 2003. |
11/24 |
Pat Durand |
2005 lead a Jordan Spreader and
a string of Difco Dump cars loaded with gravel on August 30, 2003. |
12/01 |
Art Chase |
No's. 2007 and 2008 heading to Fairbanks from North Pole. 11/22/03 |
12/08 |
Pat Durand |
Switch
maintainers removing snow in -39° F in the Fairbanks Yard. 12/2/03 |
12/15 |
E. D. Motis |
A passenger train pulled by a powerful SD70MAC passes through Talkeetna. 8/20/03 |
12/22 |
Keith Ardinger |
A variety of power pulls a passenger
train through the Healy Depot on a cold Alaskan winter day. march 1980 |
12/29 |
Multiple |
In honor of the holidays, I posted nineteen POTWs. Click here to find out what the heck is going on! |