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The Alaska portion of the Alaska Highway is an unsigned part of the Interstate Highway System east of Fairbanks. The entire length of Interstate A-2 follows Route 2 from the George Parks Highway ( Interstate A-4 ) junction in Fairbanks to Tok, east of which Route 2 carries Interstate A-1 off the Tok Cut-Off Highway to the international border.
The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a 414-mile (666 km) [1] road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway , north of Fairbanks , and ends at Deadhorse (an unincorporated community within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay ) near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields .
The Alaska Highway Veterans is a group of roughly 4,000 segregated African American soldiers in the United States Army Corps of Engineers who helped build the Alaska Highway in 1942. The highway's successful construction is seen by many as an important factor in the 1948 decision to desegregate the military. [1] [2]
A June 2006 report on connecting Alaska to the continental railroad network suggested Carmacks as a hub, with a branch line to Whitehorse and beyond to either Skagway or Haines, Alaska. White Pass and Yukon DL535 locomotive #109, seen in 2013. As of 2021, half of the original fleet of DL535 locomotives reside in Durango, Colorado.
The highway originated as the Palmer Road in the 1930s, to reach the agricultural colony at Palmer.During World War II it was completed to Glennallen as part of a massive program of military road and base building that also resulted in the Alaska Highway, [3] and connected Anchorage to the continental highway system.
Alaska Highway is a 1943 American drama film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Richard Arlen, ... with the two brothers fighting over her as they build the highway.
Tractor hauling wagons on Yukon Highway near Goldstream. 1928 Wilds P. Richardson, first president of the ARC (1905–1917) Roads, trails, telegraph lines and railways of Alaska, circa 1920. The Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska, more commonly known as the Alaska Road Commission or ARC, was created in 1905 as a board of the U.S. War ...
An additional 19 pump stations moved the refined fuel along the Alaska Highway from Whitehorse as far as Watson Lake and Fairbanks. [ 2 ] The final construction cost for the Canol Project construction has been estimated at $134 million (equivalent to $2,393,508,507 in 2024) and may have been closer to $300 million when military personnel are ...