Tracks between Flat and Iditarod with snow-covered mountain range ahead, Alaska, September 1914

These tracks were probably used for a mining tramway or narrow gauge railway for the mining operations in Flat, Alaska. Caption under photo: "Tram Road" Between Flat City and Iditarod. 7 miles long. McPherson number: K534 PH Coll 495.2-64a Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by Jam...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Railroad tracks > Alaska
Mountains > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3975
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Summary:These tracks were probably used for a mining tramway or narrow gauge railway for the mining operations in Flat, Alaska. Caption under photo: "Tram Road" Between Flat City and Iditarod. 7 miles long. McPherson number: K534 PH Coll 495.2-64a Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance survey party (known as Party No. 11 of the Alaska Railroad Commission expedition). The A.E.C. had assigned McPherson to research the feasibility of building a branch railroad from Anchorage west to the mining districts on the Kuskokwim and Iditarod Rivers.

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