Railroading Under The Midnight Sun It's past 10:15 PM in on this Thursday evening as northbound train 120N with 67 cars and well over a mile of freight wends its way north along Turnagain Arm passing the mile board at 99, just 15 miles from the depot in downtown Anchorage. The sky and water have turned a deep blue while the evening sun nicely illuminates the peaks of the Kenai Mountains across the arm towards the little old mining town of Hope, Alaska. All this freight has arrived off the Alaska Railbelt Marine barge in Whittier which carries both railcars and containerized freight for its owner Lynden as well as Northland Services and the Alaska Railroad. South of Anchorage, Alaska |
