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Construction of the railroad started in 1903 when the Alaska Central Railroad built a line starting in Seward and extending 50 miles (80 km) north. The Alaska Central went bankrupt in 1907 and was reorganized as the Alaska Northern Railroad Company in 1911, which extended the line another 21 miles (34 km) northward. On March 12, 1914, the U.S ...
By 1980, the population of Anchorage had increased to 184,775. [9] The decade of the 1980s started as a time of growth, thanks to a flood of North Slope oil revenue into the state treasury. Capital projects and an aggressive beautification program, combined with far-sighted community planning, greatly increased infrastructure and quality of life.
1914 – Anchorage founded as a railroad construction camp. [1] 1915 Chamber of Commerce [2] and Anchorage Memorial cemetery established. Alaska Railroad construction begins in Anchorage. [3] 1916 Anchorage Hotel built. Population: 3,332. [4] 1917 – Anchorage Daily Times newspaper begins publication. [5] 1920 Anchorage incorporated as a town. [1]
Work on the nine-year railroad construction project began in 1914, linking the Pacific Ocean port city of Seward on the south-central coast to Fairbanks, 470 miles (756 kilometers) away. It was a government infrastructure project intended to bring coal and other minerals easily out of interior Alaska.
The idea of a bridge or causeway across Knik Arm was first envisioned in 1923 by Alaska Railroad engineers looking for a more efficient route to Alaska's interior. [2] In 1955, a group of Anchorage businessmen studied it again, arriving at a cost estimate of $25 million ($280 million today). [2]
Anchorage Depot, also known as Alaska Railroad Depot, is the railroad station at the center of the Alaska Railroad system at the junction of the two main lines their trains run on. It serves as the starting point for many tourists traveling on the luxury trains such as the Denali Star . [ 2 ]
In 1923, after the railroad began operation and construction was complete, it became the Alaska Railroad Commission, later renamed to The Alaska Railroad. [1] [2] Among other accomplishments, it designed and/or built a number of works listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [3] Works include: Mears Memorial Bridge, built in 1923
The railroad was planned to interchange with and operate on part of the Alaska Railroad, in order to access Southcentral Alaska and its ports. As of 2020 the project was estimated to cost CA$20 billion. [2] [non-primary source needed] A rival enterprise, G7G Railway, estimated in 2020 the capital cost to be just under US$20 billion.