Back To Fairbanks
It's nearly 10 PM in the 49th State and the sun is finally low enough to bath the flats in shadows while the high peaks on the horizon remain ablaze in sunlight.
Back then more than a decade ago Jet Fuel was still king on the Alaska Railroad and nightly train 130N has another seemingly endless string of empty tanks heading back to the Flint Hills Resources refinery in North Pole to be refilled and returned to Anchorage for the thirsty aircraft at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
Three blue and gold SD70MACs are on point with a small block of loaded ABI cement hoppers head out as they roll through the junction at NSS Matanuska (MP 151.4 on the ARR mainline) only 35 miles into their 356 mile overnight run to Fairbanks. This view looks down off the Parks Highway overpass and directly above the trwain a bit over 25 miles away can be seen Knik Glacier, a 25 mile long and 5 mile wide river of ice flowing down out of the Chugach Mountains.
Near Palmer
Matanuska-Susitana Borough, Alaska
Tuesday July 17, 2012
Back To Fairbanks
It's nearly 10 PM in the 49th State and the sun is finally low enough to bath the flats in shadows while the high peaks on the horizon remain ablaze in sunlight.
Back then more than a decade ago Jet Fuel was still king on the Alaska Railroad and nightly train 130N has another seemingly endless string of empty tanks heading back to the Flint Hills Resources refinery in North Pole to be refilled and returned to Anchorage for the thirsty aircraft at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
Three blue and gold SD70MACs are on point with a small block of loaded ABI cement hoppers head out as they roll through the junction at NSS Matanuska (MP 151.4 on the ARR mainline) only 35 miles into their 356 mile overnight run to Fairbanks. This view looks down off the Parks Highway overpass and directly above the trwain a bit over 25 miles away can be seen Knik Glacier, a 25 mile long and 5 mile wide river of ice flowing down out of the Chugach Mountains.
Near Palmer
Matanuska-Susitana Borough, Alaska
Tuesday July 17, 2012