Found In The Archives It's always fun when you're looking for something in the files and find a decent shot you don't ever remember taking and never bothered to process or share. That's the case with this image. A northbound empty export coal train (183N) from Seward is seen snaking north along the shore of Turnagain Arm near MP 97 on the Alaska Railroad mainline. They are passing the McHugh Creek wayside area in Chugach State Park with the standard six SD70MACs now on the head end. They would have gone to Seward in a 3x3 DPU set up with 70 loads but they return all on the head end with only two or three on line. This train is unusual in that it has a string of tank cars on the head end. What specific move this was out of Seward is lost to time, but any freight other than coal, seasonal spring time barge traffic, and the occasional shipload of north slope pipe was unusual at the the time. South of Anchorage, Alaska |
