Alaska Railroad
Alaska Railroad locomotive taking a break near Bird Point, AK
Depth of field shot of the alaskan fireweed during one of our stops on the Hurricane Turn.
The tail end of the train and the tail end of the milky.
Alaska railroad train headed back to Anchorage after a scenic journey along the Turnagain Arm.
The rarely photographed tail end of the train. The beautiful cabbose.
This shot has been in the making for over a month. I have been scouting locations, checking train schedules, keeping an eye on the weather forecast, and a little luck. I was finally able to get the shot that I wanted. The snow-peaked mountains in the background. The Alaska wildflowers in the foreground. The Coastal Classic passenger train coming down the tracks. Now I just need to go back to redo the train over the bridge shot. Then I will finally be satisfied! This was shot along the Seward Highway just outside of Girdwood, Alaska
For all non Alaskans. This is what 11:42 looks like here. The sun light is still shining of of the locomotive. The street lights have just turned on. This phoro looks simple at first glance. This is a 5 picture panorama of the Alaskan passenger train. What makes this picture difficult are all the straight lines. When a panorama is stitched together the image is sometimes greatly distorted. Train tracks, buildings, and horizons are noticeably affected. In photoshop I have the ability to fix this distortion, but I have to manually fix every distorted line seperately. That is what made this picture a bit difficult. I had to fix the train tracks and all of the vertical and horizontal lines. Whew. some work, but it was actually sort of fun.
Surprise find this morning. went to get a few quick shot of the blowing snow at Bird Point. I ended up finding a locomotive sitting all by itself, with the engine running.I made sure to keep my distance, but couldn't resist a taking a few shots.
The Hurricane Turn train on it's way back to Talkeetna.
Cold night at Portage train depot. playing around with a little light painting on the caboose to bring out the details of the caboose.
The beautiful colors of autumn seen along the seward highway. This was taken while riding the last Spencer glacier whistle stop train of ther season.
Northbound Alaska railroad train leaving Denali National Park
Quick capture of locomotives parked at tht Portage train depot
Train 4326 at Indian, Alaska.
The journey ahead
Family day trip on the Alaska Railroad's Hurricane turn flag stop train. The train starts in Talkeetna, Alaska and stops on the bridge overlooking the Hurricane Gulch. Then the train heads back to Talkeetna.
The train that I was on had to wait for an oncoming train heading into town to pass. The Alaska Railroad is primarily a single track rail line.
Quick capture of the Alaska railroad's Coastal Classic coming from Girdwood.
Almost looks like a studio backdrop, but it isn't. This is the view pretty much whichever direction you turn in south central alaska.
A shot of Alaska Railroads Coastal Classic train. In the summer this train will run from Anchorage to Girdwood to Seward round trip.
Alaska Railroad train getting ready to enter the Whittier tunnel. It's heading back to Anchorage train depot after it passes through the 2.5 mile long mountain tunnel.
Not really a tale to tell. The train that I was on had to make way for a faster moving northward bound train.
The Coastal classic from Seward to Anchorage captured as it passes over Portage Creek no.2
Another shot from my day of exploring the Portage/Girdwood area. This was taken on the bridge crossing Twenty mile river.
Just another angle of Portage Creek no.2
The small town of Whittier comes alive in the summer. The large crusie ships that carry more passengers than the whole population of Whittier can hop off their boat and take a ride on the Alaska Railroad.
Bird Point, Alaska reflected along the side of Spencer Glacier whistle stop Alaska railroad train car.
This locomotive looks like it has seen some years. This series was taken at the Portage train depot in Alaska
The 3005 AKRR engine seen from the beach of bird point.
I was trying to replace the picture that I deleted by accident a few weeks ago. After finally figuring out what time the train would be at this spot. Figuring out what time the tide would be low enough so that I could see the old support beams of the bridge. I forgot to turn off my 2 sec timer. So this is the only picture I got of the locomotive. I was hoping to get the front of the train right at the beginning of the last concrete block. MAybe next time.
