UNIQUE PROBLEMS PLAGUE ALASKA’S RAILROADERS

By Staff
Published on May 1, 1962

Railroading in the wintertime offers many challenges in the
battle against nature but railroading in the newest of the United
States has some unique problems not faced by men on the P. R. R.
The problems stem from moose and icicles.

Owned and operated by the U.S. Government, the Alaskan Railway
was the outgrowth of the gold rush and was started in 1903 out of

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