Winter Wonderland
Here's a more than decade old one from a past life and the caption I wrote oat the time when originally shared on RP.net.
It was a splendid cold Sunday with bluebird skies and crisp white snow abounding. An empty intermodal (bare table) train was called for a date with the Northland Services barge at the Alaska Railroad's southernmost terminal in Seward. So, a quick call to my friend Frank Keller and we decided to go for it. What a chase...114 miles from Anchorage to the end of the line with not a cloud in sight. Two clean SD70MAXs led the train, which albeit was not very photogenic consisting of one tank car and 60 flats (most of which were empty) for a total of 2660 tons and 4852 ft. Here the 110S symboled train is seen just out of Anchorage at MP 113 passing Westchester Lagoon which is hot mopped by the city and is a popular place to ice skate and linger by the burn barrels (I put literally hundreds of miles on my skates here ovee the years!) Rising beyond 33 miles across Cook Inlet is the iconic Sleeping Lady, 4396 ft. Mount Susitna.
Anchorage, Alaska
Sunday March 11, 2012
Winter Wonderland
Here's a more than decade old one from a past life and the caption I wrote oat the time when originally shared on RP.net.
It was a splendid cold Sunday with bluebird skies and crisp white snow abounding. An empty intermodal (bare table) train was called for a date with the Northland Services barge at the Alaska Railroad's southernmost terminal in Seward. So, a quick call to my friend Frank Keller and we decided to go for it. What a chase...114 miles from Anchorage to the end of the line with not a cloud in sight. Two clean SD70MAXs led the train, which albeit was not very photogenic consisting of one tank car and 60 flats (most of which were empty) for a total of 2660 tons and 4852 ft. Here the 110S symboled train is seen just out of Anchorage at MP 113 passing Westchester Lagoon which is hot mopped by the city and is a popular place to ice skate and linger by the burn barrels (I put literally hundreds of miles on my skates here ovee the years!) Rising beyond 33 miles across Cook Inlet is the iconic Sleeping Lady, 4396 ft. Mount Susitna.
Anchorage, Alaska
Sunday March 11, 2012