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The Goldbelt Tram (formerly Mount Roberts Tramway) is an aerial tramway located directly south of downtown Juneau in the U.S. state of Alaska. In operation since 1996, the tram makes a six-minute ascent of 3,819-foot (1,164 m) up Mount Roberts from the cruise ship docks (just feet above sea level) to a height of about 1,800 feet (550 m).
The Melbourne tram network is the longest tram system by route length. The New Orleans streetcar system was one of the first in the world and it is the oldest system still in operation. The following is a list of cities that have current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars ), or light rail systems as part of their ...
The city is named after a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe Juneau, although it was once called Rockwell and then Harrisburg (after Juneau's co-prospector, Richard Harris). The Tlingit name of the town is Dzántik'i Héeni transl. Base of the Flounder's River, and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Áak'w transl. Little Lake in Tlingit.
These lines had many "tramway" characteristics as built but few today. Some town tramway systems had lines or groups of lines that were geographically isolated from the "main" system. Long-lived examples (i.e. excepting those during formative or closing years) are tabulated if known. Examples include Volgograd, Russia and New York City, US.
Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Anchorage. [4] The city is within the Chugach Census Area, one of the two entities established in 2019 when the former Valdez–Cordova Census Area was dissolved. [5]
The smallest municipality by population is Kupreanof with 21 residents. [2] The largest municipality by land area is Sitka which spans 2,870.34 sq mi (7,434.1 km 2), while Kiana is the smallest at 0.19 sq mi (0.49 km 2). [6] The first city to incorporate was Ketchikan in 1901 and the newest municipality is Whale Pass which incorporated in 2017 ...
There's a certain charm to small-town America. From scenic places in Maine, Alaska, California, and beyond, we've got the scoop on some of the nation's smallest towns. 15 Smallest Towns in America
Tin City (Inupiaq: Tupqaġruk) is an abandoned town except for a nearby minimally staffed radar station, in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated at the mouth of Cape Creek , on the Bering Sea coast, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula .