The Sterling Alaska Railroad GP-40 page
The Alaska Railroads GP-40-2's began arriving in 1975 as #'s 3000 - 3005. 3000 was renumbered to 3006 soon after arriving to the ARR. In 1976 # 3007 - 3011 came to Alaska. 3000-3011 were all originally painted in the black with yellow Whiskers paint scheme. In 1978 #3012 - 3015 arrived and were in the blue/yellow ALASKA paint scheme. In 1983 five GP40's were purchased from Conrail and numbered 3016 - 3020
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September 11, 1979 - Engineers controls in a ARR GP-40-2 |
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3001 - July 27, 1979 - Arriving with the northbound passenger train at McKinley Park |
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3001 - December 31, 1979 - Having some major work done in the Anchorage shops |
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3001 - August 16, 1981 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3002 - June 9, 1980 - beside the Anchorage engine house on the refueling track |
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3003 - October 7, 1979 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3003 - October 7, 1979 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3003 - October 25, 1980 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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3003 - May 25, 1981 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3004 - July 29, 1979 - on the refueling track beside the Anchorage engine house. Note the unusual headlight arrangement. Around 1979 ARR experimented with some different headlight arrangements on different locomotives. I believe 3004 was the only GP40 to get the extra lights in the nose( red and clear) as all the other photos of this time have the extra headlight on the roof and some have the red lens on the roof as well |
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3004 - October 7, 1979 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3004 - October 7, 1979 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3004 - March 7, 1981 - At Grandview as the lead unit for the Ski trian |
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3005 - August 23, 1979 - at the Anchorage passenger station on the northbound train to Fairbanks |
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3005 - October 7, 1979 - beside the Anchorage engine house on the refueling track |
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3005 - June 9, 1980 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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3006 - July 20, 1980 - behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3006 - June 5, 1981 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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3006 - May 1982 - backing down the mainline to add a third unit to the northbound passenger/freight mix to Fairbanks. This is about 500 yards from the Anchorage depot at the Cordova road crossing. |
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3007 - July 1981 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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3008 - January 1, 1979 - roof shot in the Anchorage engine house with two FP7's beside it |
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3008 - August 18, 1979 - Lead unit for the northbound #6 passenger train at the Anchorage depot with 1510 behind it |
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3008 - October 7, 1979 - on the refueling track beside the Anchorage engine house |
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3008 - August 23, 1981 - sitting in front of the Anchorage engine house in the sun with 3001 behind it |
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3009 - October 7, 1979 - on the refueling track beside the Anchorage engine house with other GP-40's |
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3009 - November 11, 1979 - sitting with its back to the sun in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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3009 - April 4, 1981 - sitting behind the Anchorage engine house with 3001 behind it. Note 1514 on the other side with side panels removed |
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3010 - October 7, 1979 - Engineers, starboard or right side facing forward behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3010 - October 7, 1979 - Fireman's, port or left side facing forward behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3010 - July 20, 1980 - in front of the Anchorage engine house. Note the small rear pilot plow |
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3010 - May 2, 1981 - nice single unit photo sitting behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3011 - July 8, 1979 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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3011 - July 29, 1979 - inside the north bay of the Anchorage engine house with most of the side panels removed |
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3011 - June 9, 1980 - behind the Anchorage engine house with FP7 1512 behind it |
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3012 - May 20, 1979 - lead unit for the northbound passenger train to Fairbanks at the Anchorage depot before departure |
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3012 - October 28, 1979 - at the east end of the refueling track at the Anchorage engine house |
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3012 - July 21, 1980 - cab shot at the Anchorage depot. Facing this direction it must be the power for the Whittier shuttle for the day |
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3012 - May 2, 1981 - beside the Anchorage engine house on the refueling track |
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3013 - May 16, 1981 - beside the Anchorage engine house on the refueling track |
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3013 - June 13, 1981 - lead unit for northbound passenger train #4 at the Anchorage depot with FP7 1512 behind it |
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3014 - July 20,1980 - in front of the Anchorage engine house |
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3015 - January 1, 1979 - roof shot from the rear inside the Anchorage engine house. Hand held exposure which is a little blurry but it might be useful for someone for details on the roof! |
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3015 - June 9, 1980 - on the outer refueling track facing west beside the Anchorage engine house |
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3015 - April 4, 1981 - rear side shot behind the Anchorage engine house |
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3015 - May 1982 - lead unit for the northbound #6 passenger train at the Anchorage depot prior to departure |
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3016 - May 15, 1983 - brand new to the ARR awaiting a barge to Alaska in Seattle. Collection of Stewart Sterling |