Heading Up to Denali from Talkeetna by Mark Stevens
Via Flickr:
A view looking to the northwest at a railroad crossing point along the bridge of the Talkeetna River. This is the railline that continues north from Talkeetna up to Denali. I had a chance during a break between the trains coming by to orient and compose this image with the tracks as a leading line, looking off into the distance.
I'm now reminded of my nearly insane plan to Unite Railways around the World, to make it so you can get a Shipping container from Santiago to Anchorage or from Cape Town to Vladivostok (although you need to stop to change out the trucks on the freight cars a few times or take the containers off and put them on a different train car that can handle a different track gauge) but also Gauge standardization, get it to the point there is only one break of Gauge between Cape Town and Cairo (which would probably be in Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania or on the Kenya-Tanzania border) but also Afghans would end up being a mess of track gauges, and South America would be even worse because nowhere shares a track gauge I think it would be best to just build a brand new Set of Standard gauge line between Salina Cruz in Mexico and Santiago in Chile
Today marks 100 YEARS of the Alaska Railroad!! We were so happy to be able to attend, not to mention it was in our humble little village of Nenana. It was pretty awesome to see the diesel engine The Spirit of Seward and to see the Golden Spikes hammered in. It was quite the eventful day!
So, I went to check out Norway's Fjords and I also want out to Alaska, USA's fjords, and I'm not on the bandwagon like everone else who goes to Norway. They had to some really cool stuff there, but there are some thing that were kind of ... well read this and see if you agree with the differences between Norway and USA fjords. I think USA's fjords are highly underrated.
HARDING DRIVES NENANA GOLDEN SPIKE TO COMPLETE AKRR
On July 15, 1923, President Warren Harding drove the “Golden Spike” at Nenana. This signified the completion of the interior Alaska Railroad. Coincidentally, this also occurred during Harding’s “Voyage of Understanding” to both Alaska and Canada...READ MORE