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After leaving the position of Governor, Sheffield served as chairman of the board of directors for Alaska Railroad from 1985 to 1997. In 1997 he was promoted to president and CEO of the railroad, where he served until 2001. [8] As of 2008, he was on the railroad's Board of Directors as vice chairman. [9]
The Seward Depot, also known as the Seward Station, is a former rail depot in Seward, Alaska, United States. The depot was constructed in 1917 at what is now Adams Street and Ballaine Boulevard to serve the railroad line. Seward was and remains the southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad. The Seward line was owned by the Alaska Central ...
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.
Nov. 6—Bill Sheffield, Alaska Raildroad Bill Sheffield, a Democrat who served as Alaska's fifth governor and survived a brush with impeachment during a decades-long career in public service ...
The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, with financial help from private donors and the Alaska Railroad, won the Christie’s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600, more than four times the $50,000 top-line estimate for the historical artifact. The price includes a premium of 26% for the auction company.
The Seward Peninsular Railroad (SPRR), often Seward Peninsula Railroad, is a former railway company in Alaska, United States. In 1900 Wild Goose Railroad was established, and on July 19, 1900 the first 6.5 km stretch of railway from Nome, Alaska to Discovery was laid. [1] The track had a gauge of three feet (910 mm).
This is a list of railroad executives, ... Sheffield, Bill (b. 1928), ARR 1997–2001 [131] Sheffield, Joseph Earl (1793–1882), Northampton Railroad;
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