The Alaska Railroad (reporting mark ARR) is a Class II railroad that operates freight and passenger trains in the state of Alaska Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer still image graphic still image Digital photographs-Color-2020-2030. xxu 2023 monographic 2023-09-10 eng
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1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. No known restrictions on publication. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The railroad's mainline runs between Seward on the southern coast and Fairbanks, near the center of the state. It passes through Anchorage and Denali National Park, to which 17% of visitors travel by train. The railroad has 656 miles (1,056 km) of track, including sidings, rail yards and branch lines. The main line between Seward and Fairbanks is over 470 miles (760 km) long. The branch to Whittier conveys freight railcars interchanged with the contiguous United States via rail barges sailing between the Port of Whittier and Harbor Island in Seattle. Construction of the railroad started in 1903 when the Alaska Central Railroad built a line starting in Seward and extending 50 miles (80 km) north. The Alaska Central went bankrupt in 1907 and was reorganized as the Alaska Northern Railroad Company in 1911, which extended the line another 21 miles (34 km) northward. On March 12, 1914, the U.S. Congress agreed to fund construction and operation of an all-weather railroad from Seward to Fairbanks and purchased the rail line from the financially struggling Alaska Northern. Credit Line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2023; (DLC/PP-2021:107). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. America Alaska Railroad Railroads Trains National parks and reserves United States Alaska Denali National Park and Preserve LC-DIG-highsm- 72874 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.72874 Carol M. Highsmith Archive (DLC) 00650024 Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- 2024642418 LC-DIG-highsm-72874 DLC aacr dcrmg DLC 240705 20250607131738.0 23918258 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng