Click here for a sound clip of 1610 pushing the Whittier shuttle in front of the Anchorage depot
Click here for a sound clip of an Alco MRS1 idling, releasing brakes and moving away
The Sterling Alaska Railroad Alco MRS-1 page
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September 11, 1979 - Engineers controls in the cab of a Alco MRS1 |
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1601 - September 11, 1979 - sitting in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1601 - September 11, 1979 - sitting in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1601 - October 7, 1979 - sitting in front of the Anchorage engine house. |
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1601 - October 7, 1979 - sitting in front of the Anchorage engine house. |
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1601 - June 24, 1980 - doing what Alco's do best when accelerating....laying a smokescreen a navy destroyer would be proud of. |
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1601 - July 20, 1980 - sitting next to 3005 in front of the Anchorage engine house. |
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1601 date unknown - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1602 - July 29, 1979 - On a storage track behind the Anchorage shops |
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1603 - date unknown - in fresh paint after arriving to the ARR, sitting behind the Anchorage engine house. Collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1603 - date 1978 or 1979 - On a storage track behind the Anchorage shops |
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1603 - May 10, 1981 - On a storage track behind the Anchorage shops |
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1603 - August 23, 1981 - sitting on a storage track in front of the Anchorage shops |
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1604 - April 19, 1981 - Sitting in front of the Anchorage engine house idling away |
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1604 - April 19, 1981 - Sitting in front of the Anchorage engine house idling away...burble, burble, burble, burble ,choke, gurgle, burble, burble...... |
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1605 & 1603 - date unknown - sitting behind the Anchorage engine house soon after arriving to the ARR. Collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1605 - May 1978 - switching freight in the Anchorage dock area |
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1605 - summer 1980 - sitting with a damaged 3051 in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1605 - June 11, 1981- heading up the # 6 passenger train to Fairbanks at the Anchorage depot.....just kidding, it brought the motive power over for the train from the engine house. |
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1606 - July 29, 1979 - sitting on the MRS storage track behind the Anchorage shops |
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1606 - May 2, 1981 - moving some Geep's around in front of the Anchorage engine house as a switcher |
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1606 - June 11, 1981 - sitting behind the anchorage engine house |
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1607 - October 28, 1979 - on the MRS storage track behind the Anchorage shops. This locomotive was never painted in ARR paint and was a source of parts for the others. |
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1608 - summer 1978 - leading the Alco MRS units on the storage track behind the Anchorage shops |
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1608 - July 8, 1979 - leading the Alco MRS units on the storage track behind the Anchorage shops |
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1608 - July 8, 1979 - leading the Alco MRS units on the storage track behind the Anchorage shops |
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1608 - July 29, 1979 - leading the Alco MRS units on the storage track behind the Anchorage shops |
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1608 - October 7, 1979 - leading the Alco MRS units on the storage track behind the Anchorage shops |
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1609 - Summer 1978 - sitting beside the carshop at the Anchorage facility. This photo was taken with a half frame Pentax camera which is why it shows the film grain when enlarged |
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1610 - August 1, 1978 - sitting in front of the Anchorage yard office |
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1610 - September 11, 1979 - Looking a bit like a model on the flat car, 1610 does switching duties in the background from the Anchorage depot |
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1610 - October 7, 1979 - In front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1610 - October 28, 1979 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1610 - October 28, 1979 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1610 - October 11, 1980 - with 1512 and 3010 in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1610 - October 11, 1980 - In front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1610 - October 11, 1980 - In front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1610 - October 25, 1980 - in front of the Anchorage engine house with a freshly painted F7 1500 |
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1610 with 1604 - April 19, 1981 - idling in front of the Anchorage engine house, you can see the exhaust in the photo |
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1610 - April 19, 1981 - idling in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1610 - May 2, 1981 - Idling away in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1610 - May
25, 1981 - at the Anchorage passenger station having just spotted
the Whittier Shuttle at the depot Click here for a sound clip of 1610 pushing the Whittier shuttle in front of the Anchorage depot |
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1611 - July 8, 1979 - 1611 is the second unit back.....this is the only photo I have that it is in. On the storage track between the carshop and the Mechanical office |
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1612 - March 1981 - sitting at the refueling racks beside the Anchorage engine house. |
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1612 - May 1, 1982 - sitting at the refueling racks beside the Anchorage engine house. notice the added sanding lines from the above photo |
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1613 - October 28, 1979 - on the MRS storage track behind the Anchorage shops, this unit was also never painted in ARR paint and like 1607 was a parts unit also. |
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Click here for a sound clip of an Alco MRS1 idling, releasing brakes and moving away
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