Left Turn

On a stunning spring evening in the Last Frontier a southbound 120S freight from Anchorage behind a pair of blue and gold SD70MACs takes a left turn of the mainline at MP 64.2 to enter the Whittier Branch main for the 12 mile run to its destination at tidewater on Prince William Sound and a date with the Alaska Marine Lines barge. After dropping it's train of Container On Flat Car (COFC) flats and outbound BNSF/UP interchange, the crew will turn right back for Alaska's largest city with northbound loads.

Portage, Alaska
Wednesday April 26, 2017

Photo courtesy of Dave Blazejewski