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and on April 27, 1906 it was bought out by The Seward Peninsula Railway. On November 18, 1921, the Alaska State acquired the railway line and renewed the equipment. Regular operation was not resumed. In 1953 the railroad was reopened as The
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to Discovery was laid. The track had a gauge of three feet (910 mm). The terminus at Anvil City was called
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When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment, Volume 2
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was established, and on July 19, 1900 the first 6.5 km stretch of railway from
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lasted only until 1955. Part of the route was then transformed into a street.
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Index

Alaska
United States
Wild Goose Railroad
Nome, Alaska
Banner station
Nome Arctic Railway
Curly Q Line
Salmon Lake
ISBN
9781931112147
"Rails to Riches - the Historic Railroads of Alaska and the Yukon - RailsNorth.com"
"Trains of the Seward Peninsula"
Categories
Defunct Alaska railroads
1906 establishments in Alaska
1921 disestablishments in Alaska

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