Just A Geep

On a gray Saturday afternoon Alaska Railroad GP40-2 3012 (built new for the railroad in July 1978) sits just north of the diesel shop next to the wheel garden on the back shop lead. At this time the 3012 was still wearing the classic 'Alaska Bold' scheme that she was delivered in (albeit with a US DOT emblem on the nose) and was the last GP40-2 wearing this scheme when she was finally repainted into the modern image 'Baby MAC' livery in 2014.

The ARR buys wheel blanks of assorted sizes that are shipped up in boxcars and then pressed them on to axles in the wheel shop.

Anchorage, Alaska
Saturday May 15, 2010

Photo courtesy of Dave Blazejewski