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61. Not a pretty
picture, but a testament to momentum. |
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62. Not a pretty picture,
but a testament to momentum. |
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63. Rube and Goldberg would
be proud of this answer to the call of Mother Necessity. The three generator
sets in the middle of the flat must be spares. The one connected to the
two 55 gallon drums is providing power for the mechanical reefers on the
pig train that follows. Connection is made via the extension cords laying
on the deck. The scene is looking due East or railroad North in the Anchorage
Yard in the early 50s. The old Elmendorf coal fired power plant is on the
left and the old yard masters office and dispatch tower are on the right. |
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64. ARR flat 12201 has been
rigged with the generator set and electrical cabinets as a temporary power
supply for the mechanical reefer pigs which must be new arrivals on the
railroad. Troop cars were modified into power cars for this purpose eventually. |
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65. North bound freight at
North end of the Anchorage Yard proceeds under the watchful eye of a WWII
relic concrete pill box on Elmendorf. The new cars are enjoying a ride
on state of the art equipment for auto transport. Some lug nut should be
able to tell us what year they are. |
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66. New caboose 1069 brings
up the rear of the Fairbanks bound freight. The two re-rail frogs provide
a lot of confidence along with the mud ballast. |
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67. ARR 12356 flat in piggy
back service, with Alaska Steamship trailers. Imagine the man hours used
to set the cribbing and apply all those chain binders for each trailer
on train. |
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68. Each flat in the train
has a different deck and blocking is not standardized. Just imagine the
crew gets to repeat the process for the south bound loading. |
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69. Is this ARR flat 12641?
With a 20' Smyth the Smoother Mover container secured with cheese blocks
no less. The old Hollywood Apartments above on the bluff overlooking the
Anchorage Yard. The Elmendorf power plant looms above at the right. |
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70. Dispatcher? Yard Office?
This is near the old scale house in the Anchorage Yard. It is 6:43 RR time
and he is radio equipped. The small cylindrical device on the shelf in
front of him is a mechanical calendar. All the latest equipment. |
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71. Numbers 71 through 74
depict a derailment not reported in my reference material. The location
is at
the
extreme RR South end of the Anchorage Yard. Notice the new as yet unballasted
track panels and switches part of a major rebuild of the Yard. Could this
have contributed to the lead unit splitting the switch. |
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72. The mud flats and Cook
Inlet are on the right. The ABBA set of F units is brand new!
They still
have the factory EMD plow and the single level winterization hatch.
The hand rails next to the door had been modified raising them to
clear the service platforms in the new diesel engine house. |
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73. If you were setting on
Ken Brovald's train watching bench in Elderberry Park, this would be the
view of the Anchorage Yard throat. The derailment at this location shut
down all operations South bound. FP7 1512 and B unit 1503 appear to be
on the rails but 1502 on the lead was in a real bind. |
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74. Nose on shot of brand
new 1502 shows how lacking the EMD stock plow was. The Railroad subsequently
built all the plows for the F fleet in the Anchorage Shop. Notice the extended
fuel tank under the trailing B unit. The two flats behind 1512 are a MOW
water car and transporter for the cable blade Caterpillar snow fighters. |
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75. Rehabilitation and expansion
of the railroad docks in Seward. |
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76. Rehabilitation and expansion
of the railroad docks in Seward. |
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77. Rehabilitation and expansion
of the railroad docks in Seward. |
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78. Rehabilitation and expansion
of the railroad docks in Seward. |
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79. Rehabilitation and expansion
of the railroad docks in Seward. |
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80. Rehabilitation and expansion
of the railroad docks in Seward. |
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81. Rehabilitation and expansion
of the railroad docks in Seward. |
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82. Rehabilitation and
expansion of the railroad docks in Seward. |
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83. Rehabilitation and expansion
of the railroad docks in Seward. |
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84. Views of the ice covered
tug SeaWitch with a rail car barge in Whittier after crossing the Gulf
of Alaska in early spring. |
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85. Views of the ice covered
tug SeaWitch with a rail car barge in Whittier after crossing the Gulf
of Alaska in early spring. |
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86. Numbers 86 through 89.
Of loading foreign cars at the Whittier barge slip on a rainy spring day.
Note
all the fallen flags, SOO LINE, ROCK ISLAND, SOUTHERN PACIFIC, BURLINGTON
ROUTE and a Canadian Pacific flat under the North West shovel. |
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87. See descrption #86 |
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88. See descrption #86 |
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89 See descrption #86 |
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90. See descrption #86 |
