Whittier
Two of the last three GP40-2s to wear their 1975 as delivered black and yellow paint trundle back north through the yard after yarding the first third of their 6015 ft train 120S that they brought down from Anchorage. The empty yard squeezed hard between the icy glacier waters of Prince William Sound and the Kenai Peninsula Coast Ranges will soon be full of container laden railcars shuttling traffic to and from the Alaska Marine Lines barge which has just arrived after a weeklong journey from Seattle.
Whittier is the ARR's main port for shipment of containers which arrive via barge stacked in racks above the main deck which contains 8 tracks for interchange of railcars to the BNSF & UP in Seattle. The concrete structure rising beyond is the long abandoned Buckner Building, once the largest building in Alaska.
If you'd like to read a bit more about the history of Whittier and this fascinating structure check out these links:
www.alaskarails.org/historical2/whittier-history/index.html
www.army.mil/article/193996/discovering_wartime_whittier
www.onlyinyourstate.com/alaska/abandoned-buckner-building...
www.adn.com/features/article/shadow-abandoned-buckner-bui...
www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier-alas...
Whittier, Alaska
Wednesday March 9, 2011
Whittier
Two of the last three GP40-2s to wear their 1975 as delivered black and yellow paint trundle back north through the yard after yarding the first third of their 6015 ft train 120S that they brought down from Anchorage. The empty yard squeezed hard between the icy glacier waters of Prince William Sound and the Kenai Peninsula Coast Ranges will soon be full of container laden railcars shuttling traffic to and from the Alaska Marine Lines barge which has just arrived after a weeklong journey from Seattle.
Whittier is the ARR's main port for shipment of containers which arrive via barge stacked in racks above the main deck which contains 8 tracks for interchange of railcars to the BNSF & UP in Seattle. The concrete structure rising beyond is the long abandoned Buckner Building, once the largest building in Alaska.
If you'd like to read a bit more about the history of Whittier and this fascinating structure check out these links:
www.alaskarails.org/historical2/whittier-history/index.html
www.army.mil/article/193996/discovering_wartime_whittier
www.onlyinyourstate.com/alaska/abandoned-buckner-building...
www.adn.com/features/article/shadow-abandoned-buckner-bui...
www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier-alas...
Whittier, Alaska
Wednesday March 9, 2011