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B1984.077.17.006
[Alaska Railroad engine 605, tracks, men inear train, buildings in distance]
Collection: B1984.077
B1979.002.6378
Locas, Steam (Misc) How engine looked when I reached Fairbanks from Nenana. Steam locomotive 901, summer 1950. [damaged train engine]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1984.077.5.005
Fairbanks [street scene, depot, grocery, train engine on display, two people walking]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.6.005
[railroad tracks, train engine, railway car on ramp, lumber, buildings. neg. is deteriorating]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.6.008
[train engine, elevated rail car possibly for loading coal? building, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1984.077
B1998.014.1.825
L46 Fairbanks, Alaska (1946 postcard) [winter scene, snow on train engine, railroad depot, structures]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1881.1
(Fur Rendezvous, clowns at train) [two men dressed as Keystone Kops, one man dressed as robber, and train engineer acting out scene next to the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, locomotive 1050, with onlookers, 1952?]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.56
(catastrophe)(February 7 1967)(cat pulls CN engine )(6025)
Keywords: catastrophe, train wreck, accident
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B2023.003.44
3985, 19, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [Alaska Railroad train engine and train cars parked on tracks with an automobile parked to the right of tracks and snow-capped mountains in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Portage, Alaska Railroad, Chugach Mountains, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides
B1979.002.2930
from verso: Snow (removal); snow fleet in action - 1949, Alaska Railroad [train engines clear snow from tracks on a bend]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.8901
Locos, Steam (Misc) Steam loco 901, Wreck out of Nenana summer of 1950. [crashed locomotive engine, train]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.55
(catastrophe)(February 7 1967)(Crane lifts engine CN Derailment )(6024)
Keywords: catastrophe, train wreck, accident
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1989.016.1625.1
7. (First ARR train) [Alaska Railroad locomotive #1 on tracks, with engineer leaning out to speak with uniformed man on platform]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1957.005.023
Anchorage Seward train obstructed by snowslide at mile 72 Gov't R[ail]road. Nov. 29, 1918. HGK AEC H122 [on verso:] J.T.C. Supt. Of Transp., W. Gerig Assist. Chief Engineer, F.A. Hansen District Engineer, Chas Mathison? Locomotive Engineer, Henry Howard, Clarence Olsen Conductor [Group of men standing beside train partially hidden by avalanche at mile 72 of Alaska Engineering Commission government railroad]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, AEC, Train, Snowslide, Mile 72, Superintendent of Transportation, William Gerig, Chief Engineer, F.A. Hansen, District Engineer, Chas Mathison, Locomotive Engineer, Henry Howard, Clarence Olsen, Conductor, Avalanche
Collection: B1957.005 Jack H Floyd
B1989.016.1924.2
(Alaska Railroad Moose Gooser, Fur Rondy, 1952) [man dressed as robber and train engineer acting out scene next to the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, locomotive 1050, during Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2023.003.47
Alaska Railroad MRS1 #1076, Portage, AK. 07/09/1956. 3988, 22, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [Alaska Railroad train on tracks with one person standing at the front of the engine and one leaning outside the window. There is another train engine to the left and a sign that reads, “Portage.” Telephone poles and Chugach Mountains in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Portage, Alaska Railroad, Chugach Mountains, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides
B2018.023.056a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print photograph, “Trains run regularly over the White Pass & Yukon all year.”] [winter scene of train engines on bridge over gorge; side of train cars at far right; mountain in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1964.001.693
(Oliver Jones clearing tracks at Premier)[Three locomotive engines clearing snow from the tracks and several men walking within the plowed paths]
Keywords: train, railroad, snow, winter, snowplow, transportation, powerlines
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B2018.023.056b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide] [from verso of print photograph, “Trains run regularly over the White Pass & Yukon all year.”] [winter scene of train engines on bridge over gorge; side of train cars at far right; mountain in distance; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.2123
W19 Rotary snow plow in action o the Alaska Railroad; photo by Gyuriak [copy neg; two workers stand atop train engine as it clears tracks]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1990.014.5.People.19.025
3-1948; People - Rondy - Kiwanis; Moose Gooser on 5th Ave & D St. [Alaska Railroad engine 1 runs on temporary track; engineer in cab; child running alongside train in snow on street; automobiles; structure in background; ]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 19
AEC.G1229
Matanuska & Chickaloon train leaving Anchorage; AEC G-1229; HEK [engine number 242 pulliing railroad cars on curving track; structures, domiciles in background]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1979.002.1161
Floods (Nenana 5/48) The AuRoRa coming down from Fairbanks on May 22 had to "wade" across track that had disappeared under the water. The train is pulled by a steam engine because of the danger that a diesel would flood out.
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.590.3
30. Healy River Coal Mines. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [Alaska Railroad train with engine No. 614, with banners including one for "Frank Reed's National [?]"]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.033.304
Whittier train at Campbell, engine 3007, 10-76 [locomotive 3007 with one passenger car and caboose proceeding past sign for Campbell; print date Nov 76]
Collection: B2017.033
B1989.016.1924.1
(Alaska Railroad Moose Gooser, Fur Rondy, 1952) [two men dressed as Keystone Kops, one man dressed as robber, and train engineer acting out scene next to the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, locomotive 1050, with onlookers, during Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage. Cf. 1881.1]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1962.001A.392
Watching the departure of the first train on the Alaska Home Railway, Oct. 4, ’07. P.S. Hunt, G1667 [Alaska Home Railroad; Valdez; Antonelle & Nelson]
Keywords: Engines, Locomotives, Trains, Railroads, Tracks, Street scenes, Buildings, Towns
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1979.002.1424
AEC.G-1156 March 4-1919 Mixed train arrives at mile 227 End of Steel [Frontal view of steam locomotive 224 offloading or loading passengers and equipment]
Keywords: steam engine, railroad, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1957.005.202
Matanuska Station, April 14, 1919. HG Kaiser. Verso: Alaska Railroad - Matanuska to Caswell. [railroad equipment] [Train and large building]
Keywords: AEC, A.E.C., Alaskan Engineering Commission, Alaska Railroad, Railroad, Matanuska, Caswell, Station, H.G. Kaiser, Equipment, Train, Tracks, Building
Collection: B1957.005 Jack H Floyd
AEC.G860
AEC G 860 KGH AEC RW Division Engineer Wn Gerig and Mrs Gerig. Arrive at Anchorage from Washington DC Feb, 27-18 { Three individuals deporting train and waiting for baggage standing by rail car # US 805}
Keywords: transportation, travel, railroad, train
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1957.005.031
Mile 91. Turnagain Arm. A.E.C. R[ailwa]y. March 14-1918. Train arrives from Anchorage. AEC H36 HGK [on verso:] Alaska Railroad - Portage to Anchorage [Indigenous] Train arriving from Anchorage, 3/14/18, mile 91.5 Rainbow [men standing on tracks, dog teams with sleds resting at right, Turnagain Arm at left]
Keywords: Mile 91, Turnagain Arm, AEC, A.E.C., Alaskan Engineering Commission, Alaska Railroad, Railroad, Railway, Train, Anchorage, Portage, Indigenous, Rainbow, Men, Tracks, Dog team, Winter, Snow, Hillside, Mountain, Range
Collection: B1957.005 Jack H Floyd
B1990.014.5.People.19.005
41010 - Anchorage - Fur Rondy 1941? Moose Gooser at a Rondy when Cal Johnson was Gen Mgr of ARR (Moose Gooser engine & cars on special tracks on 4th Ave.) [no neg; duplicate print filed with other prints; people watching Alaska Railroad AuRoRa 1050 engine in front of Paddock Furniture; Dutch Boy Paints sign; Milky Way Fountain sign; Jade Room in left background; man wearing uniform, possibly a Keystone Kop riding on train car at far left]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 19
B1957.005.205
Temporary coal loading platform at Eska Creek spur, Feb. 13, [19]17, A.E.C. R[ailwa]y. AEC G306 P.S. Hunt. Verso: Alaska Railroad - Matanuska Branch, Eska [view down side of train to coal loading dock]
Keywords: AEC, A.E.C., Alaskan Engineering Commission, Alaska Railroad, Railroad, Matanuska, Branch, Eska, Coal, Loading, Platform, Eska Creek Spur, P.S. Hunt, View, Train, Tracks, Dock, Winter, Snow
Collection: B1957.005 Jack H Floyd
