This is the Princess Alaska Rail Service's Denali Express arriving in the seaport of Whittier from Fairbanks, Denali National Park, Talkeetna, and Anchorage, Alaska.
Whittier (just to the left of this image) started out as a military port built at the start of World War II because it is almost always cloud covered and wouldn't be easy to be detected by air. It's only land connection is a 2.6 mile long shared road and railway tunnel. The train has just emerged from the tunnel entrance out of sight to the right.
Today, Whittier is a tourist port for Prince William Sound and the Alaska Cruise industry.
Owing to the parallel lines in this image, it may have a herringbone look. If so please open the image in the Lytebox.
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7th February 2014, 03:47 PM #1
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7th February 2014, 05:59 PM #2
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Really inviting!!!!
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7th February 2014, 08:02 PM #3
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The composition comes together nicely, and you have managed to avoid any over exposure on all those white boats.
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7th February 2014, 09:34 PM #4
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Very nice composition. How long did you have to wait for the train? It was worth it, however long you waited...
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7th February 2014, 10:11 PM #5
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Did you shoot this from the upper deck of a cruise ship or airborn?
Whittier is now our launch point for boating on the sound where we get most of our eagle photos. We used to boat out of Valdez until 2010 when we started running out of Whittier.
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7th February 2014, 11:51 PM #6
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Thank you Nandakumar and Geoff!
We were doing the Alaska Inside Passage and had arrived by bus a short time earlier. The folks on the train arrived a short time later and I happened to be on deck exploring the ship when the Denali Express made it's way through the Whittier Tunnel so it was a case of luck more than plan. The tunnel can only be used by either vehicles or trains so there are schedules for when it is open for which type of traffic.
Originally Posted by rpcrowe
Hi Dan. This was shot from the deck of the Island Princess. Whittier is a lot closer to Anchorage than Valdez I would expect, but it might be closer to wherever you are starting from.
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8th February 2014, 01:35 AM #7
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One would like to think so. But this is Alaska. The schedule goes like this, when a train shows up, they stop the road traffic... Originally Posted by FrankMi
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8th February 2014, 01:45 AM #8
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LOL! Makes sense. Our bus driver told us that we needed to be at the tunnel entrance by a certain time so I guess they knew when the train was coming! Originally Posted by NorthernFocus
One would like to think so. But this is Alaska. The schedule goes like this, when a train shows up, they stop the road traffic...
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