Curling Southbound
Three original bought new GP40-2s dressed in matching modern paint lead train 120S with a long string of COFC cars headed from Anchorage toward Whittier and a date with yet another Alaska Marine Lines barge up from Seattle. They are swinging around a bend on a shelf above the parallel Seward Highway at about MP 72.5 on the Alaska Railroad mainline. In less than eight miles they'll reach CP F120 and the switch at the north leg of the wye for the CTC controlled Whittier Branch for the dozen mile run to the port town on Prince William Sound. Of that 12 miles more than 25% of that trip will be underground as they pass through nearly 3.5 miles of tunnels beneath the peaks and glaciers of the coastal mountains.
South of Girdwood, Alaska
Thursday March 3, 2016
Curling Southbound
Three original bought new GP40-2s dressed in matching modern paint lead train 120S with a long string of COFC cars headed from Anchorage toward Whittier and a date with yet another Alaska Marine Lines barge up from Seattle. They are swinging around a bend on a shelf above the parallel Seward Highway at about MP 72.5 on the Alaska Railroad mainline. In less than eight miles they'll reach CP F120 and the switch at the north leg of the wye for the CTC controlled Whittier Branch for the dozen mile run to the port town on Prince William Sound. Of that 12 miles more than 25% of that trip will be underground as they pass through nearly 3.5 miles of tunnels beneath the peaks and glaciers of the coastal mountains.
South of Girdwood, Alaska
Thursday March 3, 2016