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Photographs courtesy of Jonathan Fischer

The Healy Canyon is one of my favorite places to go. It’s just south of town. I drove part way, forded a small stream, and walked to the spot. All totaled it was about 15 minutes from the Totem Inn, in downtown Healy. It’s either this location or the bridge at Nenana, it’s not possible to catch up with the train northbound from this location.
 
This series of photos shows ARR 4328 working north from MP 357 toward Healy. Unfortunately, this train has no passengers, as they’ve disembarked at the Park, and this train ties up at Healy for servicing overnight
 
My recommendation to the tour companies would be to run a dinner train from the Park to Healy, and back, around this time of day. It’s the perfect time of day, it would take about two hours, and there aren’t any other trains through the area at the same time. They might be able to use the equipment seen in the photo, so they would be getting additional utilization from the same passenger cars. 8/12/19