At Hurricane, the railroad has a bus
for moving workers to different locations. Look carefully at the
"O" in MOW. It is the railroad logo.
Some people chose to relax on top of
some K rail concrete barriers. This was a mother and daughter
team.
Finally, the southbound Denali Star
train came into view and passed us. The engineer has a
newspaper which he is about to throw towards the section house.
Lower left, the Royal Celebrity
cars. Lower right, the viewing platform on the Princess cars.
Above right, Engineer Godfrey and
Conductor Gray going over the instructions for the return trip.
These two long time railroaders helped make the Hurricane Turn train
ride a first class ride on the last full service railroad in the United
States.
The return to Talkeetna featured an
unexpected stop at a location they called "twin bridges" along the
Indian River. I heard the crew talking about some kind of stop to
allow the southbound Denali Star train to get further ahead of us.
