Anchorage Depot - Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

The Anchorage passenger depot was completed in December, 1943. Rebuilt and improved in 1997, the first floor is designated for passenger ticketing and tour information, and has historical photos of the Railroad's development dating back to 1914 when the construction of the Alaska Railroad began.

The Alaska Railroad [from the sign at the front door to the depot]

Steel gangs, railroad crews, gandy dancers, laborers, surveyors, engineers, explosives experts, military men, and the federal government joined forces to build a railroad in 1915 that is exceptional in the history of the United States. Apart from the Panama Railway, the Alaska Railroad was the only railroad ever built, owned, and operated by the United States government.

The laying of the steel tracks which snake through the formidable wilderness of the subarctic presented logistical nightmares. Yet in 1923, eight years after construction began, the rails were joined from north to south and the great project was finished. Trains with cargoes of passengers, mail, freight, coal, and gold began to roll up and down the line. Tracks stretched from Seward on the coast of the Pacific Ocean along Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet across Potter Marsh over Ship Creek past the frontier town of Anchorage and through the Nenana River Valley into the interior gold rush town of Fairbanks for a total of 478 miles of track.

Street address: 411 West First Avenue Anchorage, AK USA 99501 County / Borough / Parish: Anchorage Year listed: 1999 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event Periods of significance: 1925-1949 Historic function: Transportation Current function: Commerce/Trade, Transportation Privately owned?: yes Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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