Princess Tours

Princess Tours runs ten cars a day (five north, five south) from Anchorage to Fairbanks on the Alaska Railroad, stopping at Talkeetna, Denali, and occasionally Whittier.

The “land” portion of the cruisetours include Anchorage, Denali National Park, Copper River, the Kenai Peninsula, Prudhoe Bay, the Arctic villages of Nome and Kotzebue and the Canadian Yukon.

Traveling daily between Anchorage and Fairbanks from May through September,[citation needed] the Ultra Dome cars feature the largest domed windows ever built for a rail car,[1] dining salons, and the only open-air outdoor observation platforms on the Alaska Railroad.

[2] In 1986, P&O Princess Cruises purchased Tour Alaska, and in 1988 replaced the Super Domes with four new Ultra Dome cars, rebuilt by Rader from Pullman Gallery Cars which had been used on the San Francisco-San Jose Peninsula Commute by Southern Pacific until 1985.

The cars came in pairs and shared a kitchen which cooked for the dining rooms downstairs.