The southbound Aurora Winter passenger train, now effectively a mixed train is passing the freight depot where they will cut off the last five cars before ending their run at the passenger depot i... (more)
The southbound Aurora Winter passenger train is about an hour out of Anchorage on what has become a typical afternoon over the last two weeks or so. Beautiful spring weather has made for great pho... (more)
The northbound Winter Aurora passenger train arrives in Talkeetna under the watchful eye of Mt. McKinley, known almost universally in Alaska as Denali, and the Alaska Range. It was a beautiful day... (more)
A Railroad Still Life - This is the conductor's "office" inside ARR baggage car 103. All the essentials can be found at his desk: a radio tuned to road channel one, a curren... (more)
Looking north out an open baggage door on the east side of the train as the ARR's winter Aurora passenger train speeds northward. Five cars make up the train on this day and above the snow caked ... (more)
A Man and His Office - Veteran ARR Conductor Steve Culver is framed in the partially open rear baggage door as he talk to his engineer on his hand held radio. Out in front of... (more)
Looking back south from the open baggage door as a boy scout troop debarks from the ARR's Winter Aurora flag stop train at the ghost town of Curry. This diminutive five car train features two bag... (more)
Looking forward from an open Dutch door, the Winter Aurora plows its way north near Chase through a snow squall on the last day of the month. This is the ARR's regularly scheduled winter passenge... (more)