Three SD70MACs are coiling their way south with 70 loads of coal and 3 more MACs on the rear trailing obediently behind. Just about 40 miles out of Anchorage - the crew has been enjoying a flat water level route so far. That is all about to end however, and the 25,000+ EMD horses will be needed to muscle this coal in one piece up and over the crest of the Kenai Mountains at Grandview about 15 miles to the south.
Coal and steel don't go bad. This album features long, slow, heavy freight trains; drag freights, slop freights, dead freights, etc. Trains with lots of power, and lots of different cargo slogging along behind.
