The One And Only Time
Another frame of the one and only time I pulled this off in 10 years living in The Last Frontier!
The Alaska State fair is always summer's last big hurrah in the Last Frontier. To help accommodate the 300,000 visitors over the two week period (equivalent to about half the state's total population) the ARR runs trains from Anchorage to Palmer up to three times a day on both weekends. This is a great way to travel and beat the traffic and the train drops you right at the gate as seen here.
These trains are the only regularly scheduled passenger trains on this normally freight only branch, and the only ones now that travel this far to MP A4.5. And on only one night each year they set of fireworks at 10 PM sharp. If the last train of the night arrives on time it is sitting at the station in a perfect position for just about the whole show. I had tried this shot the prior year only to be skunked by a train that arrived ten minutes late, but this time it all came together.
Palmer, Alaska
Saturday September 03, 2016
The One And Only Time
Another frame of the one and only time I pulled this off in 10 years living in The Last Frontier!
The Alaska State fair is always summer's last big hurrah in the Last Frontier. To help accommodate the 300,000 visitors over the two week period (equivalent to about half the state's total population) the ARR runs trains from Anchorage to Palmer up to three times a day on both weekends. This is a great way to travel and beat the traffic and the train drops you right at the gate as seen here.
These trains are the only regularly scheduled passenger trains on this normally freight only branch, and the only ones now that travel this far to MP A4.5. And on only one night each year they set of fireworks at 10 PM sharp. If the last train of the night arrives on time it is sitting at the station in a perfect position for just about the whole show. I had tried this shot the prior year only to be skunked by a train that arrived ten minutes late, but this time it all came together.
Palmer, Alaska
Saturday September 03, 2016