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Olli-Matti Oinonen of Savon Sanomat wrote that the film is an open air, atmospheric feel-good road movie: “Alaska Highway is about fixing a truck, of travelling and of beautiful sceneries, but nevertheless director Salmenperä has been able to create magical tension, in which the viewer is wondering, together with Tolonen, whether the old truck will be able to make it in its new task.
The Richardson Highway is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska, running 368 miles (562 km) and connecting Valdez to Fairbanks. It is marked as Alaska Route 4 from Valdez to Delta Junction and as Alaska Route 2 from there to Fairbanks.
The Taylor Highway (numbered Alaska Route 5) is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska that extends 160 miles (258 km) from Tetlin Junction, about 11 miles (17 km) east of Tok on the Alaska Highway, to Eagle. The southern 96 miles from the Alaska Highway to Jack Wade Junction is designated as Alaska Route 5.
The portion of the Alaska Highway in Alaska was planned to become part of the United States Numbered Highway System and to be signed as part of U.S. Route 97 (US 97). In 1953, the British Columbia government renumbered a series of highways to Highway 97 between the U.S. border at Osoyoos , US 97's northern terminus, and Dawson Creek.
The Alaska Highway through Alaska, Yukon and British Columbia is commonly considered a de facto northerly extension of the Pan-American Highway, which continues further north with the Dalton Highway in Alaska. With this route, the Pan-American Highway begins in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska near Deadhorse.
Alaska Route 1 (AK-1) is a state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Alaska.It runs from Homer northeast and east to Tok by way of Anchorage.It is one of two routes in Alaska to contain significant portions of freeway: the Seward Highway in south Anchorage and the Glenn Highway between Anchorage and Palmer.
AK-2 (Alaska Highway) in Tetlin Junction: Hwy 9 (Top of the World Highway) at Canadian Border Taylor Highway, Top of the World Highway — — Formerly continued north to end of Taylor Highway at Eagle. [2] AK-6: 161: 259 AK-2 (Elliot Highway) in Fox: River Road in Circle: Steese Highway — — AK-7: 150.0: 241.4 Dead end in Ketchikan: Haines ...
In February 1942 a road construction gang working in Northern California are summoned to a meeting. The boss of the gang, Pop Ormsby, has been commissioned as a Major in the US Army Corps of Engineers and signs up the entire crew with his two sons, Woody and Steve, gaining direct entry as Technical Sergeants to build the Alcan Highway.