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railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

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U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...

Alaska Alaska ( ) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the north ...

Regional Railroad

Alaska Railroad The Alaska Railroad is a Class II railroad that operates freight and passenger trains in the state of Alaska. The railroad's mainline runs between Seward, Alaska, Seward on the southern coast and Fairbanks, Alaska, Fairbanks, near the center of ...

(ARR)

Heritage/Scenic Railroad

White Pass and Yukon Route The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) is a Canadian and U.S. Class III narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. An isolated system, it has no direct connection to any other rail ...

(WPY)

Planned Railroad

*'' Alaska-Alberta Railway''

Defunct Railroads

* Alaska Anthracite Railroad * Alaska Anthracite Coal and Railway Company * Alaska Home Railroad * Alaska Northern Railway * Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company * Catalla and Carbon Mountain Railway *

Copper River and Northwestern Railway The Copper River and Northwestern Railway (CR&NW) consisted of two rail lines, the Copper River line and the Northwestern line. Michael James Heney had secured the right-of-way up the Copper River in 1904. He started building the railway from ...

Council City and Solomon River Railroad Council City and Solomon River Railroad is an abandoned railroad in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its name refers to Solomon River (Alaska), Solomon River and the city of Council, Alaska, Council in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, Nome Census Area. Th ...

* Golovin Bay Railroad * Nome Arctic Railway * Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company (

) * Seward Peninsula Railway * Tanana Mines Railway *

Tanana Valley Railroad The Tanana Valley Railroad (TVRR) was a Narrow gauge railway, narrow gauge railroad that operated in the Tanana Valley of Alaska from 1905 to about 1917. A portion of the railroad later became part of the Alaska Railroad. History The TVRR wa ...

* Valdez, Copper River and Tanana Railroad * Valdez-Yukon Railroad * Wild Goose Railroad * Yakutat and Southern Railway

Industrial Operations

* Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company * Alaska-Juneau Gold Mine * Alaska Lumber and Pulp Company (

Alaska Pulp Corporation Alaska ( ) is a Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also ...

) * Apollo Consolidated Mining Company * Cliff Creek Coal Mine * Coal Creek Coal Company * Cook Inlet Coal Field Company * Katalla Coal Company * Ketchikan Pulp Company * Maine Northwestern Development Company * Rush and Brown Copper Mine * Treadwell Mines

References

* *RailsNorth.com (2005)
Rails to Riches
Retrieved January 5, 2006 *The Katalla and Controller Bay Alaska Project (2005)

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Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road ...