One of my last night shots from my trip last week. I remeber this lake being almost a quarter of the way covered with Portage glacier. in the winter time the lake would freeze over traping the icebergs that had broken off. We would climb the icebergs and slide off. Now the lake rarely freezes and as you can see there is no glacier or icebergs because the glacier has receded to beach at the end of the lake.
Not sure what this train depot's name really is. I just call it the Portage train depot. I remeber in the 80's this was the only way to get to the city of Whittier by land. There was a gravel ramp that you would drive your vehicle up onto a train car. Then the train would go through the tunnel in the mountain to Whittier, Alaska. This facility is no longer used for that. A road has been added onto the tunnel train track and people can drive to Whittier.
