Fast Alaska Railroad 4005 empty coal train behind Gov. Sarah Palin's House

[fireAKems]

Notice the conspicuous absence of GRAFFITI on the cars. There are a couple little tags, but nothing like the crazy tagging like happens in the lower 48.

[webecomets]

That is the fastest coal drag I have ever seen. Wow

[CoastStarlight11]

I shot a northbound coal train and the Denali star at this same exact crossing! Nice shot! Vids of this crossing are on my youtube account.

[reesebwhitehead]

@shaded07

That is a real train idiot!they don't use cabooses!it varys the amount of cars

[Shaded07]

That wasn't even a real train. Only 74 cars.

A real train has at least 88 cars on it with a caboose

[christopher9030]

Was Sarah the engineer.

[Lightwolf333]

Very nice video of the AR on the high Ball. THat crossing also has an interesting sounding E-bell.

[SweatyWalrus]

Lazy fucking hostlers can't set up a damn consist correctly.

[coborn35]

@SweatyWalrus Shutup foamer.

[nkproad777]

@SweatyWalrus Yeah, whats wrong with it anyway?

[mrlrrconductor]

@SweatyWalrus If you are talking about the 4th unit on the train with the long hood towrads the train it is like that for a reason, when they arrive at Healy it gets set out and is used as DP on the rear of the train after it is loaded and heads back south, so this consist is set up correctly.

[SweatyWalrus]

@mrlrrconductor They don't use DP on the way back south. The DP consist is set up after it passes through Anchorage again and goes down to Seward. Those are just lazy hostlers not wanting to wye a motor, so the Healy extra board gets to do it.

[MainlineProductions1]

@SweatyWalrus on real trains it doesn't matter if the last unit in the lashup is fasing the same way the train is going

[SweatyWalrus]

@MainlineProductions1 Seriously, people. There's a siding the train pulls into and after they're done loading the fucking thing they cut away and run around the cars on the main. They have to wye that consist to go south.

[VideoFreakAustinT]

How often do the trains up there come?

[stevekatkus]

The railroad in the summer months probably averages one train an hour or so both north and southbound traffic. In the winter maybe one every 4 hours at best on average.

Although right now none are traveling much due to one of my unit's C-17's crashed right on the tracks and took them out at Elmendorf AFB.

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[DioHolyDiver83]

Whaoooo That Was Fast Like A Roadrunner.....

[KSE828]

"Spirit of Gridwood."

[adam1234a]

BNSF hoppers SWEEEEET!

[mrlrrconductor]

BNSF hoppers? Those are ARR hoppers all the way, besides the leased TNM with yellow ends and tuscan colored AOK hoppers. Pause it when it gets to the trinity hoppers you will see ARR reporting marks and logo.

[braedenbrody]

Awesome video, love those colors of the Alaska RR. Good show.

[ivangayoso]

Fantastico.

[dutchtrainmanserie22]

Awesome video 5*****

[ma7799]

Wow! Four SD70MAC's!

[funnykidyyz]

stop at 1:00

Tag words

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[stevekatkus]

have no clue what that means, nor do I ever care.

[t3hsully1985]

@stevekatkus The original poster is referring to the graffiti on the car at 1:00. Caught me by surprise too. I'm used to seeing graffiti on every car in the consist.

[Craighill9]

Saw that

[Alex49railfan]

the grafity

[familyguydude3123]

cool 5 *****

[funnykidyyz]

when i was little i used to get scared of trians yes i know im stupid so dont reply

[OldsVistaCruiser]

You're not stupid - trains are large and can be loud.

As a little kid, it would be quite natural to be scared of such an immense object going so fast and making such noise!

[FEC929]

The FEC is awesome and this paint scheme looks better on those SD70M-2's.

[stevekatkus]

I think FEC should redo their paint scheme. Our state came up with the colors first in that style after the BN SD-70M similar paint scheme. FEC just looks like a copy cat. Need someting more original.

[seankolker]

Alaska RR copied the BN 70MAC scheme,sure glad palin isnt VP,the FEC is okay..Alaska RR could have alot better paint schemes. They should get some SD70ACe`s or ES44ACs up there.

[stevekatkus]

why are you glad that Gov. Palin isn't VP? I have no reason to conclude as to why she should not be the VP or even President

[seankolker]

main reason i work on the railroad,need my retiement to stay put of social security,surprised bush didnt fuck that up,like everything else.

[adam1234a]

No they didnt, BN Copyied EMD sd70m demo paint.

[seankolker]

railroaders are union and therefore mostly democrat.

[MeSeeUTube]

I get stopped alot by this train in Anchorage. In this area the train is FLYING !

[railfanmike]

i like there paint schemes

[stevekatkus]

Great, me too. I hate Florida's East Coast new paint schemes, they are wanna-be Look-a-likes.

[railfanmike]

lol, yeah

[kskcsfan]

Great Video! 4 units and 70 cars do they climb and large hills?

[1975grandville]

Excellent video. The December '07 issue of Trains has an article on the oil train in Fairbanks, do you have any video of that area?

[stevekatkus]

It's My new Dodge Ram 2500 Diesel. I'll post a video clip of the truck with its awesome air horn and the Alaska Railroad design.

[chaibyron]

Railroad crossing on Hallea Lane/Lucus Road. These particular locomotives seem to have some awfully loud airhorns in comparison to older ones, too. You can hear them from miles away. I bet the one who shot the video was thinking about covering his or her ears when that train was approaching.

[chessiethecat]

Nice. Alaska, one of the places I am dieing to go.

[likestallwomen]

Never knew those puppies could fly like that! He was moving pretty good!

[mrlrrconductor]

I used to live in Fairbanks, and boy do I miss seeing the ARR Love the SD70MACs, if you could you should try to get a video of the 4 new ones coming and post it, that would be awesome! Great video.

[Derailedtrain666]

Tere was an Alaska here in colorado a year ago or so like and old geep

[Derailedtrain666]

U ever see like BNSF or UP or CN or CP?

[stevekatkus]

Nope, not at all. Only some of the rolling stock.

[Derailedtrain666]

U ever see any other companies?

[stevekatkus]

I have only seen a few other leased locomotives, i.e. Amtrak FP40's and some Geeps. I have also seen the EMD SD70 Demo Units in Alaska before.

[blinkingblythe]

barreling!

[78720]

i live in alaska that locomotive is a dash 9 the newest train on the rail roar i toke it from anchorage with my class to seward

i got it for free

[stevekatkus]

Sorry you must me mistaken, its a SD70MAC EMD Locomotive not a Dash 9.

[OG4LYFEYungD]

nice i like it

[WesBNSF]

Finally someone in Alaska posting up some decent videos. I love it. I'm in Anchorage, AK, but I don't have a video camera. Need to get one and get out there.

[stevekatkus]

give me some video requests and I will make it happen, what is it you guys want?

[WesBNSF]

Anything really, I like the Coal trains, the gravel trains that run twice a day here in the summer, the Denali Star with over 15 passenger cars is kind of cool, and the long freight trains from Whittier and Seward aren't too bad either. Do you work for the railroad?

[stevekatkus]

nope, but my dad does. I worked for princess tours on the train, and was trained as an Alaska Railroad tour guide. I model 1:8 scale live steam trains and HO scale stuff.

[waltermatthewberg]

74-ish carts