Harding hoped that with the completion of the Alaska Railroad, World War I veterans would return to their home territory and any impoverished workers in the lower states could come to Alaska and make or find their own employment.

On July 15, 1923, President Harding drove in the golden spike on the north side of the steel Mears Memorial Bridge that completed the Alaska Railroad.

The " Harding Railroad Car " on display in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Tracks for the Alaska Railroad run through the foreground.

Cantwell is named after Jim Cantwell, a worker on The Alaska Railroad.

The town began as a flag stop on the Alaska Railroad.

Land access to this area is by either the Alaska Railroad or the Seward Highway.

In 1920, the Alaska Railroad built its Willow station house at mile 185. 7 along the tracks leading from Seward to Fairbanks.

Montana Creek became a small Dena ' ina village in about 1915 during construction of the Alaska Railroad.

The economy of the area was negatively impacted by the construction of the George Parks Highway, which connected Anchorage to Denali National Park and Fairbanks along the Alaska Railroad route, bypassing Glennallen.

In 1915, construction of the Alaska Railroad doubled Nenana's population.

This lottery began in 1917 when a group of surveyors working for the Alaska Railroad whiled the time they spent waiting for the river to open and boats with supplies to reach them by forming a betting pool.

It is at mile 412 of the Alaska Railroad, on the south bank of the Tanana River where it meets the Nenana River.

The largest buildings shown are ( from left ) the Nenana Ice Classic office, Coghill's Store and the Alaska Railroad depot.

The City attracts independent travelers with fuel and supplies, the Alaska Railroad Museum, the Golden Railroad Spike Historic Park and Interpretive Center, the historical Episcopal Church, Iditarod dog kennels, and a replica of the sternwheeler Nenana.

Nenana was where the antitoxin was unloaded from the Alaska Railroad and run to Nome by dogsled.

Today the system is far less dense and is operated by the government-owned Amtrak company, with the exception of Alaska, which uses the Alaska Railroad.

To offset running deficits and reduced federal subsidies, rates for the Alaska Railroad were raised and a toll was implemented on the Richardson Highway.

Two years later subsidized air travel between the Alaska Railroad and Seward Peninsula was initiated.

The runaway train's lineup in the movie consisted of four Alaska Railroad locomotives, all built by EMD: GP40-2 # 3010, F7 # 1500, and # 1801 and # 1810, both GP7s.

* ARR GP40-2 # 3010 is still active on the Alaska Railroad, painted in the new corporate scheme.

In 1975, Pt Baker made national news when Zieske v Butz, a landmark lawsuit against the US Forest Service brought by residents Charles Zieske, Alan Stein, and Herb Zieske, was decided by Judge Van der Heydt, the Alaska Federal District court judge.

In 1969 he decided to undertake ethnographic fieldwork among the Nunamiut in Alaska, in order to better understand the periglacial environment that Mousterian hominins occupied, and to see first hand how hunter-gatherer behavior is reflected in material remains.

After earning his Juris Doctor, he decided to take a year off and work on the Alaska Pipeline.

As a result of this failed test, it was decided that the land was unfit for multimegaton nuclear tests, so a calibration test was conducted at Amchitka Island, Alaska, in the fall of 1969 during Operation Mandrel.

In 1865, Western Union decided to lay a telegraph line across Alaska to Bering Strait where it would connect with an Asian line.

However, the Yukon Territory switched to the Pacific Standard Time Zone in 1975 and the time zone was not used ( except for Yakutat ) until 1983 when the state of Alaska decided to move most of the state to UTC − 9.

Never a man to do anything small, Harriman decided to go to Alaska to hunt Kodiak bears.

Stefansson's plan was to sail the expedition's two ships, Karluk and Alaska, to the old whaling station at Herschel Island off the Canadian Arctic coast, where the final composition of the Northern and Southern Parties would be decided and where equipment and supplies would be sorted out.

The birth of punk also had a big influence on the young Alaska, who soon decided to form a band.

Although Evans Island had been inhabited up to the time of the Russian exploration of Alaska, the island had no modern-day inhabitants until 1984, when a group of residents and former residents of the original Alutiq village of Chenega, on Chenega Island, decided to build the village of Chenega Bay on Crab Bay on Evans Island.

The Senate projection was also close to the actual outcome, predicting 34 of the 35 decided states correctly, including correctly showing a Democratic pickup in Alaska and incorrectly showing the Republican Senator Norm Coleman holding his seat in Minnesota.

Increasingly drawn to a more reclusive lifestyle, Rose's community ultimately decided to leave the city for the northern California wilderness, where Rose and Podmoshensky became monks in 1968 and transformed the Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood info a full-fledged monastic community.

After a transformative journey to Alaska in the summer of 1986, Holdsworth settled in the Philadelphia, PA area and decided to pursue purely acoustic music within a spiritual context.

Military or Naval Personnel on duty in Alaska or outside the United States and Puerto Rico are also allowed this automatic extension of time for filing their returns.

* 1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.

Due to the extremely rugged, mountainous nature of Southeastern Alaska, almost all communities ( with the exception of Hyder, Skagway, and Haines ) have no road connections outside of their locale, so aircraft and boats are the major means of transport.

When Alaska Natives enrolled in their regional corporations under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 ( ANCSA ), the Aleut Corporation attracted only about 2, 000 enrolees who could prove a blood quantum of 1 / 4 or more Alaska Native ( including Aleut ).

* " Native Experience " A four part television documentary series about the impact of oil and mineral development on the Native cultures of Alaska, dealing in particular with the historical background leading up to ANCSA and the experiences, memories and perceptions of both natives involved in the lands claim and their descendants today in rural Alaska.

The Inuit Circumpolar Conference meeting in Barrow, Alaska, officially adopted " Inuit " as a designation for all Eskimos, regardless of their local usages, in 1977.

The CWRIC was appointed to conduct an official governmental study of Executive Order 9066, related wartime orders, and their impact on Japanese Americans in the West and Alaska Natives in the Pribilof Islands.

The Keystone Kops re-emerge every year in the town of Cedar Springs, Michigan during their Red Flannel Festival, and also in Sitka, Alaska during the annual Alaska Day festival.

Contemporary traditional-style kayaks trace their origins primarily to the native boats of Alaska, northern Canada, and Southwest Greenland.

Some Alaska Natives continue to resent the Alaska Federation of Natives ' lack of legitimacy to act on their behalf.

* Whales and dolphins are hunted, partly for their flesh, by aboriginal communities in Japan, Alaska, Siberia, Canada, by the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and by two small communities in Indonesia.

The five surrounding Arctic countries, Russia, Canada, Norway, Denmark ( via Greenland ), and the United States ( via Alaska ), are limited to a exclusive economic zone around their coasts, and the area beyond that is administered by the International Seabed Authority.

In 2010, Alaska had the lowest total tax burden, earning enough to pay all their tax obligations by March 26.

In response to potential competitors, the Russians extended their claims eastward from the Commander Islands to the shores of Alaska.

However, another study in northern Alaska found that ground squirrels and porcupines strictly maintained their circadian rhythms through 82 days and nights of sunshine.

The Steller sea lion has attracted considerable attention in recent decades due to significant, unexplained declines in their numbers over a large portion of their range in Alaska.