Curling South To Seward

A look back to a favorite shot that was also the first and one of the few times I've had a photo published on the cover of a print magazine.  This graced the front of Railroad Illustrated back when it was still a monthly publication as the successor to the renowned CTC Board.

Anyway, it was a splendid cold Sunday with bluebird skies and crisp white snow abounding. An empty intermodal (bare table) train was called for a date with the Northland Services barge at the Alaska Railroad's southernmost terminal in Seward. So, a quick call to my friend Frank Keller and we decided to go for it. What a chase...114 miles from Anchorage to the end of the line with not a cloud in sight. Two clean SD70MACs led the train symboled 110S, which albeit was not very photogenic consisting of one tank car and 60 flats (most of which were empty) for a total of 2660 tons and 4852 feet. Here the train is seen wending its way south through the frozen tidal marshes and around the cliffs hard by the Chugach Range here near MP 68.

North of Portage, Alaska
Sunday March 11, 2012

Photo courtesy of Dave Blazejewski