Alaskan RR Tourist Train

A brief video of our ride on the Alaskan Railroad, departing Denali to Anchorage, Alaska. We enjoyed this remarkable 8 hour trip in the cars which had wrapping overhead windows throughout the entire length of the car as well as a deck open to the outdoors - which is where I was standing while shooting all of this footage. The dining room was on the deck below us! It was an amazing trip to say the least.

We were to have been on the Princess Cruise Lines Coaches, but a mechanical failure of some kind took FOUR of those coaches out of commission. Using the Jedi mind trick, some of my family members were able to book us onboard the ARR tourism coaches. This trip is a MUST DO for any true rail fan - add it to your bucket list...!

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[HunterR909]

Those huge passenger cars behind the alaska consist look terrible.

[mapexmac]

@HunterR909 - terrible? can you be more specific? What, they appear dirty? You don't like the graphics?

[HunterR909]

@mapexmac It's the HUGE cars AFTER the ALASKA RR Cars, they look out of place, like they should be on their own train.

[mapexmac]

@HunterR909 agreed! it's revenue though for ARR, pulling the coaches from the cruise ship companies who latch-up to the ARR specials... Tourism at its finest! ;-) Thx for watching my vid just the same!

[HunterR909]

@mapexmac Take this title and put it in the youtube search window, You'll see an E9 with a HUGE snow plow, That E9A Used to be one of Alaska RRs. and Union Pacific before that. ( WSOR "Sustain Dane" Passenger Train Leaving Madison).

[mapexmac]

@HunterR909 That E9A is a beauty - looks immaculately restored...

[HunterR909]

@mapexmac I believe that Both E9s and an FP7 are for sale, I saw it on a railcar broker that they've only been leased

[HunterR909]

@mapexmac Hey, I'm a big fan of the ARR, I have one of their books, the ones that show the FP7s and such,, Did you know that at one time a set of former UP E9A-Bs pulled the ARR Passenger Trains.

[mapexmac]

@Trains232 thanks! it was breath taking!

[Trains232]

I love the scenary and depth of the forest around you.