South DEX
Alaska Railroad train 231S, the DEX (shorthand for Denali Express) has three Holland America Princess cruise cars trailing a lone SD70MAC as they make their way non stop from Denali Park station destined to a waiting Princess Cruise lines vessel waiting in Whittier. This train leaves Fairbanks in the wee hours and deadheads to the Park where it picks up its passengers for a morning departure running several hours in advance of the flagship Denali Star for its 412 mile run to tidewater .
They have just crossed the long Knik River bridge and swung around the bluff as they head south amidst some autumn splendor in this view from the Old Glenn Hwy overpass at ARR milepost 145.6. Shrouded in clouds miles distant on the far side of the wide Matanuska Valley past Palmer is the 6093 ft summit of Matanuska Peak in the Chugach Mountains.
South of Palmer, Alaska
Monday September 7, 2015
South DEX
Alaska Railroad train 231S, the DEX (shorthand for Denali Express) has three Holland America Princess cruise cars trailing a lone SD70MAC as they make their way non stop from Denali Park station destined to a waiting Princess Cruise lines vessel waiting in Whittier. This train leaves Fairbanks in the wee hours and deadheads to the Park where it picks up its passengers for a morning departure running several hours in advance of the flagship Denali Star for its 412 mile run to tidewater .
They have just crossed the long Knik River bridge and swung around the bluff as they head south amidst some autumn splendor in this view from the Old Glenn Hwy overpass at ARR milepost 145.6. Shrouded in clouds miles distant on the far side of the wide Matanuska Valley past Palmer is the 6093 ft summit of Matanuska Peak in the Chugach Mountains.
South of Palmer, Alaska
Monday September 7, 2015