Western Railroad Discussion > Alaska Railroad - 10 Years After

1. The 4010 gets a lift in the back shop at Anchorage on May 13, 2009

2. 3007 still wears the old scheme as it is in the Anchorage back shop probably for a traction motor changeout.

3. AKRR's newest - #4328 at the Anchorage Rack November 2008

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4. The coach yard looking south from the car shop

5. The coach yards looking north from the car shop - both from 2007

6. On the Seward passenger northbound in the Loop District. May 24, 2008

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Those are really cool photos of some wonderful locomotives -- especially the 3007. Her dynamic brake blister looked like pure SP, so I looked her up on railroadpicturearchives.net" and aw that sh was built in Jan., 1976, for the Alaska RR as a GP40-2. I wondered if she had the SP-style L-shaped engineer's window, and -- she does! At lest, she did on Aug. 25, 2016, when a great photo was taken that clearly shows that she and her sister, the 3005, both have that SP-style :-shaped engineers window!

I really like the paint scheme she and her sisters are wearing, at least, as of Aug., 2016, the date of the most recent photo I can find of thee great locomotives.

EDIT --
Many things about the 3007 scream "SP":
- Her L-shaped engineer's side window
- Her dynamic brake blister
- The font used in the lettering on her flank
- The font used for the number on her cab

But rrpicturearcjhives says she was built for the Alaska RR (in April, 1976). Someone in the Alaska RR back in the mid-1970s must have been a real SP fan~ Love it!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/20/18 15:15 by Margaret_SP_fan.

Interesting, as I just started/finished watching "Alaska Railroad" series on Dish Network. It became available on one of thier free preview channels this month.

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA

Looks like Amtrak's old Santa Fe coach yard back in the late 1970's! My trip back in 2005 was a classic...

Thanks for sharing!

ShastaDaylight

That first shot is cool!!!!!