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2. Harding Railroad Car - Wikipedia

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   The Harding Railroad Car is a historically significant Pullman railroad passenger car located at Pioneer Park (aka Alaskaland) in Fairbanks, Alaska.Also called Denali, and designated with equipment number X-336 by the Alaska Railroad, the car was one of three used to carry a delegation that included President Warren G. Harding in 1923 to the Mears Memorial Bridge for a ceremony marking ...

3. List of White Pass and Yukon Route locomotives and cars ...

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   Offered for sale in 2022. ... Originally used as a passenger car. Used as a baggage car ... Resold in 1947 to a private party who used it as a shed in Skagway, Alaska ...

4. Overland train - Wikipedia

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   Alaska Freight Lines of Seattle had contracted with Western Electric to provide 500 tons of equipment to the DEW stations being built in the Alaska sector. Hearing of the VC-12, on 5 January 1955 they signed a contract with LeTourneau for the construction of the VC-22 Sno-Freighter. The contract called for a single locomotive and six cars able ...

5. Alaska Railroad - Wikipedia

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   The Denali Express uses a set of bilevel passenger dome cars that are owned by Tour Alaska, a subsidiary of Carnival, and a single bilevel passenger dome car that is owned by Alaska Railroad, with all cars operated under contract by Alaska Railroad. This train operates Saturdays, Sundays, and alternate Wednesdays exclusively for Holland America ...

6. Fairbanks, Alaska - Wikipedia

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   Fairbanks is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the founding campus of the University of Alaska system, established in 1917. Fairbanks International Airport is located three miles (4.8 km) southwest of the central business district of the city; Fairbanks is the smallest city in the United States with regularly scheduled non-stop ...

7. White Pass and Yukon Route - Wikipedia

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   Alaska became strategically important for the United States during World War II; there was concern that the Japanese might invade it, as Alaska was the closest part of the United States to Japan. Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor , the decision was made by the US and Canadian governments to construct the Alaska Highway as an all-weather ...