The Sterling Alaska Railroad F unit page
All photos by Stewart L. Sterling lll except as noted by "collection of"
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1500 - June 6, 1980 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1500 - October 25, 1980 - in very fresh paint with the new ALASKA paint scheme in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1500 - October 25, 1980 - in very fresh paint with the new ALASKA paint scheme in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1500 - October 25, 1980 - in very fresh paint with the new ALASKA paint scheme in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1500 - May 2, 1981 - on the refueling rack with 1502 beside the Anchorage engine house |
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1500 - August 26, 1981 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1500 with 1502 - April 12, 1982 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1500 - October 6, 1972 - at the Fairbanks yard. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1500 with 1517 & 1512 - June 1973 - at the Fairbanks depot. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1502 - November 11, 1979 - on the storage track beside the car shop in Anchorage |
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1502 - November 11, 1979 - with other F units on the storage track beside the car shop in Anchorage |
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1502 - October 11, 1980 - on the Fueling rack beside the Anchorage engine house |
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1502 - June 9,1980 - Inside the cab of 1502 while its at the Anchorage passenger station. up ahead a switch engine is sorting out cars near Ak cold storage. I've always liked this picture. |
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1502 - August 16, 1981 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1502 - May 25, 1981 - at the Anchorage passenger station as lead unit for the passenger train to Fairbanks. ARR puts the train # in the number boards of the locomotives, this is scheduled train 2 to Fairbanks |
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1502 with 1503 - August 16, 1981 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1502 with 1505 & 1503 - November 14, 1981 - with B units behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1502 - November 2, 1971 - at the Fairbanks yard. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1502 - March 17, 1973 - in the snow, location unknown. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1502 - 1972 or 1973 - doing switching in Palmer. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1503 - May 23, 1981 - sitting in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1503 - July 23, 1981 - on the refueling rack beside the Anchorage engine house |
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1503 - date unknown - beside the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1504 - July 29, 1979 - on the storage track beside the carshop at Anchorage, 1505 and MRS1 1714 are behind it |
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1504 - December 31, 1979 - on the storage track for the winter in Anchorage |
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1504 - Date Unknown - beside the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1504 - Date unknown, probably early 1970's - leading a SIX matched F unit string on a freight train at the Anchorage yard. Roy Foster at one time told me he would rearrange locomotive lineups to make matched sets like this. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1505 - May 2, 1981 - B unit in front of the Anchorage engine house. Note the Alco trucks on it, makes it rather unique. |
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1506 - November 11, 1979 - in a string of 7 F units in storage beside the carshop in Anchorage |
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1506 - July 20, 1980 - at the Anchorage passenger station with FP7 1510 ready to take the daily passenger train north to Fairbanks |
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1506 - May 9, 1981 - in the carshop at Anchorage |
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1506 - June 6, 1981 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1506 - October 10, 1971 - with 1509. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1506 - January 29, 1972 - looking rather cold, location unknown. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1507 - date unknown - location? collection of Stewart sterling |
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1507 - date unknown - on the storage track next to the Anchorage carshop |
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1508 - July 23, 1981 - at the Anchorage passenger station ready with train # 2 north for Fairbanks |
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1508 - July 23, 1981 - nose shot at the Anchorage passenger station ready with train # 2 north for Fairbanks |
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1508 - May 1982 - in front of the Anchorage engine house in need of a paint job, it will soon get the blue/yellow ALASKA scheme |
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1508 - April 3, 1972 - location? collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1509 - date unknown - at the Anchorage passenger station |
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1509 - date unknown - at the Anchorage passenger station |
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1510 - February 1966 - refueling with 1514 behind it. This was the original paint scheme for the F units. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1510 - August 18, 1979 - at the Anchorage passenger station in Bicentennial paint. 1510 is a FP-7 |
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1510 - August 18, 1979 - at the Anchorage passenger station in Bicentennial paint. 1510 is a FP-7 |
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1510 - February 9, 1980 - Inside the cab of 1510 at the Anchorage engine house |
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1510 - March 1981 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1510 - June 11, 1981 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1510 - unknown date - location? - in Black/yellow paint. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1511 - March 29, 1972 - Anchorage. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1511 - date unknown - behind the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1512 - July 27,1979 - Northbound passenger train with 1512 arriving at McKinley park |
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1512 - September 11, 1979 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1512 - September 11, 1979 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1512 - February 9, 1980 - with 1530 behind it inside the Anchorage engine house |
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1512 - June 9, 1980 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1512 - April 19, 1981 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1512 with 1510 - April 19, 1981 - behind the Anchorage engine house, unfortunately the slide has a reddish tint to it |
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1512 with 1510 & 1530 - May 9, 1981 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1512 - May 23, 1981 - in the lead of northbound train #4 at the Anchorage passenger station. Note the billboard boxcar in the background |
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1512 - May 25, 1981 - Nose shot at the Anchorage passenger station |
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1512 - March 1973 - at Fairbanks. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1514 - October 7, 1979 - on the refueling rack beside the Anchorage engine house. See historical note on the next slide description. |
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1514 - October 7, 1979 - on the refueling rack beside the Anchorage engine house. 1514 is famous as it is the last F-7 built by EMD, builders # 19066 built December 1953. Only WM F7b's 410-414 were built that month in 1953 along with Alaska Railroads F7's 1506 (#19045), 1507 (#19047), 1508 (#19046) and FP7's 1510 (#19064) and 1512 (#19065). EMD then switched over to F9 production. Information received from Extra 2200 South in June 1980, Builders numbers confirmed with a copy of the ARR's roster from 1975 |
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1514 - October 7, 1979 - on the refueling rack beside the Anchorage engine house. |
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1514 - February 9, 1980 - sitting in the Anchorage engine house after having an electrical fire in the main generator |
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1514 - February 9, 1980 - Side nose shot of 1514 sitting in the Anchorage engine house after having an electrical fire in the main generator. Note the batteries on the pallet removed from the locomotive, possibly shorted out from the electrical fire |
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1514 - February 9, 1980 - sitting in the Anchorage engine house after having an electrical fire in the main generator. a closer view of the side of the engine, note the roofline details and the evidence of the smoke from the center vent on the side. |
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1514 - March 8, 1981 - sitting behind the Anchorage engine house completely stripped and riding on some rather different trucks. |
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1514 - March 8, 1981 - sitting behind the Anchorage engine house. A closer view of the nose and the strange trucks on it. Unfortunately it was never rebuilt. It was moved around the yard for years, rusting away, until it was sold and ended up in the backyard of a Seward resident. |
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1514 - Date unknown - with three other F units at the Anchorage passenger station. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1514 with 1509 and 1512 - 1973 - in a matched blue/yellow A-B-A formation. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1515 - August 3, 1981 - F7b sitting on passenger car trucks behind the Anchorage carshop. It was retired in 1975 but hung around supplying parts until 1984 when it was scrapped. |
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1516 - Date unknown - beside the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1516 - Date unknown - beside the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1517 - June 13, 1981 - at the Anchorage passenger station on the northbound train. this was my first view of a B unit in the blue/yellow ALASKA scheme. |
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1517 - June 19, 1981 - F7b sitting in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1517 - June 1973 - in the older blue/yellow paint scheme. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1519 - July 1971 - behind the Anchorage engine house, note the external pipe that looks out of place. Collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1520 - Date unknown - Nose shot, beside the Anchorage engine house. Note this unit has the double headlights. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1520 - Date unknown - coupled to a A-B-B-A & GP-7 beside the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1520 - Date unknown - behind the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1521 - Date unknown - behind the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1522 - Date unknown - beside the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1522 - Date unknown - with two other F units in A-B-A formation beside the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1524 - April 28, 1973 - behind the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1525 - Date unknown - beside the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1526 - September 11, 1971 - In D&RGW paint still. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1526 - Date unknown - behind the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1526 - Date unknown - behind the Anchorage engine house. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1528 - July 1973 - at the Fairbanks engine facility. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1530 - September 11, 1979 - on display for Alaska Railroad open house in front of passenger station on the old shortcut to the yard |
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1530 - September 11, 1979 - 1530's cab during the Alaska Railroad open house. Note the updated controls! compare it to the photo of 1510's cab. |
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1530 - September 11, 1979 - 1530's engine room during the Alaska Railroad open house. a little blurry as I did not have a flash! |
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1530 - April 4, 1981 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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1530 - May 9, 1981 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1530 with 1510 & 1512 - May 9, 1981 - lined up behind the Anchorage engine house |
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1530 - June 11, 1981 - Nose shot at the Anchorage passenger station heading up the northbound train to Fairbanks. |
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1530 - Date unknown - still in D&RGW paint in front of the Anchorage car shop. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1532 - Date unknown - at the Fairbanks engine facility. collection of Stewart Sterling |
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1532 - Date unknown - with GP-7 1836. collection of Stewart Sterling |