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B1973.079.48
[Seward Peninsula train on tracks carrying supplies]
Keywords: trains, transportation
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1984.077.21.022
[railroad tracks, water tank?, men on tracks, gravel? on tracks, train, buildings]
Collection: B1984.077
B2019.015.2
JUL 65P [Two sets of railroad tracks with a passenger train in the distance, July 1965]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Alaska, Railroad tracks
Collection: B2019.015
B2019.015.3
JUL 65P [Two sets of railroad tracks with a passenger train on to the left, July 1965]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, Alaska, Railroad tracks
Collection: B2019.015
B1989.016.659.2
[tent city and train tracks at Matanuska Colony site, cf. 659.1]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1984.077.17.006
[Alaska Railroad engine 605, tracks, men inear train, buildings in distance]
Collection: B1984.077
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
B1984.077.6.005
[railroad tracks, train engine, railway car on ramp, lumber, buildings. neg. is deteriorating]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.2227.16
(Eklutna Railway Station) [Alaska Railroad depot at Eklutna, with train on tracks and passengers on platform]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2301
[view down tracks to Alaska Railroad train at Anchorage depot, photographer's shadow in foreground]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1624.5
6. (Dedicating the Aurora Train, Alaska Railroad) [spectators and group of MPs standing on platform at Anchorage train depot, with tracks visible at left]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2315
(Alaska Railroad, end of train) [four-car train on tracks through brush, including tank car and open car carrying gravel]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1984.077.22.012
[depot, railroad tracks, boardwalk, platform, bulding, two people, train. Image is blurry. Neg. is deteriorating.]
Collection: B1984.077
B1984.077.6.006
[railroad tracks, structure for loading trains? neg. is deteriorating, broken piece of neg obstructs part of image]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.1941.1
(Alaska Railroad freight train to Portage, winter) [view down Seward Highway with railroad train on tracks at left, utlity poles along road, mountains in distance]
Keywords: communications
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
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
B1970.035.14
Broadway, Skagway - looking north, postcard. [train, railroad tracks, street, businesses, totem pole, people, automobiles]
Collection: B1970.035 Aleen Fowler Collection
B1989.016.2227.17
(Eklutna Railway Station) [Alaska Railroad depot at Eklutna, with train on tracks and men offloading sacks, passengers on platform]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.676
79. Along the Alaska Railroad. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [Alaska Railroad train on tracks, Turnagain Arm?]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.5773
[men walking along track next to train at Tunnel in snowstorm, station platform at left. Has neg dated 5/27/46]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.1910
(Alaska Railroad train through snow drifts) [view down railroad tracks in winter, with snow piled on each side and large plume of steam hovering over tracks]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1941.2
(Alaska Railroad freight train to Portage, winter) [view down Seward Highway with railroad locomotive 1502 pulling train on tracks at left, utlity poles along road, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1941.3
(Alaska Railroad freight train to Portage, winter) [view down Seward Highway with railroad locomotive 1502 pulling train on tracks at left, utlity poles along road, mountains in distance]
Keywords: roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2023.003.27
Alaska Railroad, RS1 #1000 Train #3, Portage, AK. 07/09/1956. 3968, 1, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [Alaska Railroad train with buildings to the left of tracks and at right in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Portage, Alaska Railroad, 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
B1989.016.2304.6
(Mountain scenery along Cook Inlet) [Alaska Railroad train tracks and Seward Highway at right, Alaska Range in distance]
Keywords: transportation, roads
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
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
B1989.016.2227.15
(Eklutna Railway Station) [Alaska Railroad depot at Eklutna, with train on tracks and men offloading sacks, building at right, flagpole at left]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.659.1
3. A city in the making, Matanuska Valley Project. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [tent city and train tracks at Matanuska Colony site]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
b2011.014.375
Two women standing on train tracks, railroad car behind with sign reading “the Scenic Limited”. 2.75 x 4.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
B2015.008.1128
Avila, Snapshot from the train, with tracks and characteristically Spanish rolling stock in foreground, and the walled city in the background, to the left, almost indistinguishable [railroad yard with cars]
Collection: B2015.008
B2023.003.49
3990, 24, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [Alaska Railroad train cars parked on tracks with Buckner Building and Chugach Mountains in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Whittier, Alaska Railroad, Buckner Building, Chugach Mountains, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides
B1998.014.1.2249
An Alaskan argument over "right -of-way." "moose & train; famous Alaskan argument over right of way" [moose standing wth hind hooves on railroad tracks as train approaches; snow, winter, structures on right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2023.003.45
Alaska Railroad RS1 #1000 Train #4, Portage, AK. 07/09/1956. 3986, 20, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [Alaska Railroad train on tracks with buildings to the right 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
B1989.016.2038
(Elmendorf, July 8, 1940, another view) [aerial of Elmendorf Field on Fort Richardson, with rows of tents, Alaska Railroad train tracks at bottom of image]
Keywords: military
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.1121
Castile, church and town of San Vicente (on the hill) and olive trees in foreground in the Ebro valley. The train had stopped at a station [railroad tracks in foreground, river at right]
Collection: B2015.008
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
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
B1989.016.2143.3
7. "All aboard" for Palmer! Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [train with passenger and freight cars on tracks outside of Alaska Railroad station at Palmer. emulsion missing in lower right corner]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.762
340.1. Childs Glacier, Alaska. 9.24.16 [view, possibly from train tracks, past building in
foreground, across river to glacier terminus in background at left. Original image blurry. Proof
print]
Keywords: Childs Glacier, glacier, Copper River
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.2143.14
22. Welcoming the Valley colonists at Anchorage. Hewitt's Photo Shop [large crowd gathered on platform next to tracks at Alaska Railroad depot in Anchorage, passenger train unloading, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.020.096
[Sun and man wearing broad-brimmed hat and waders posed with basin full of hooligan behind automobile, train tracks in right background, Seward Highway in right background, 1950-1955]
Collection: B2017.020
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
B1989.016.1084.4
P-233. Hewitt's (Palmer, July 3, 1936) [crowd on platform at Palmer depot with Alaska Railroad passenger train on tracks, one man in crowd holding a tuba, American flags hanging from station]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1831
Salmon fishing, Ship Creek, Anchorage, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo [men, women, and children on riverbank fishing, with train on Alaska Railroad tracks and warehouse buildings in background, water tower and Chugach Mountains in distance]
Keywords: fishing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2143.15
23. Anchorage turns out to welcome Matanuska Valley colonists. Hewitt's Photo Shop [large crowd gathered on platform next to tracks at Alaska Railroad depot in Anchorage, passenger train unloading, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1972.046.186
[bird’s eye view of railroad station, several passengers standing on snowy platform, train at right, possibly snowplow on tracks in distance, sign at left for W.P. & Y. Telegraph Office, White Pass & Yukon Route]
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B1989.016.1924.4
(Alaska Railroad Moose Gooser, Fur Rondy, 1952) [man dressed as robber standing on tracks next to the Alaska Railroad Aurora train, with Club 25 and spectators along Fourth Avenue visible in background, Fur Rendezvous, Anchorage]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
