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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
B1989.016.304.9
Transportation, Alaska R.R. [passengers near Alaska Railroad train car and truck]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2304.4
(Mountain scenery along Cook Inlet) [Alaska Railroad train traveling along Turnagain Arm, view from top of train car?]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
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
B2018.007.1
[Alaska Railroad train at Nenana depot, passenger car 1332 at left, men on platform at right]
Collection: B2018.007
B1989.016.1056.1
P-244. Hewitt's (Unloading Horses, early Palmer) [men on top of and next to Alaska Railroad train car, horses coming down ramp from car]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1056.2
P-236. Hewitt's (Unloading Horses, early Palmer) [men on top of and next to Alaska Railroad train car, horses coming down ramp from car]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
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
B1989.016.675.1
69. "Loop" Alaska R.R. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [view from Alaska Railroad car of train navigating The Loop]
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
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
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
B1981.020.111
White Pass depot and train, Skagway [steam locomotive and passenger cars at White Pass & Yukon Route station, passengers standing near automobile at left]
Collection: B1981.020 Hotchkiss
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
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
B2017.033.305
Whittier train x-ing Arctic Blvd at Campbell, 10-76 [locomotive, passenger car, and caboose in bicentennial paint at road crossing; print date Nov 76]
Collection: B2017.033
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
B2023.003.17
3927, 33, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [view of Alaska Railroad yard at Ship Creek with parked train cars and buildings facing southeast with downtown Anchorage and Chugach Mountain in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Anchorage, Ship Creek, Alaska Railroad, Train, Chugach Mountains, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides
B2023.003.18
3928, 34, Photo by John Endler, Jr. [view of Alaska Railroad yard at Ship Creek with parked train cars and buildings facing southwest with downtown Anchorage and Knik Arm in the background]
Keywords: Alaska, Anchorage, Ship Creek, Knik Arm, Cook Inlet, Alaska Railroad, Train, John Endler Jr.
Collection: B2023.003 John Endler Jr. Slides
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
b2011.014.374
Mrs. Stockton & I at Oroville, Calif. May 19th 1915. [Two women seated on observation platform of railroad passenger car with sign reading “The Scenic Limited;” this train was run by the Western Pacific Railroad between Oakland, California and St. Louis.] 2.75 x 4.5 nitrate negative
Collection: B2011.014
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