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Colorado76

August 03, 2016 07:50PM

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Here are some links to photos of the Wild Goose Railroad and Nome-Arctic Railroad:

Arctic R[ail]r[oad] constructing crew on Nome River.

Nome Arctic R[ail]r[oad] on Nome R[iver].

On the Nome Arctic R[ail]r[oad] on Nome River, July 16, 1906.

And here is a link to another history of the Nome-Arctic Railroad as well:

http://www.visitnomealaska.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Trains-of-the-Seward-Peninsula.pdf

We have witnessed valley
and plain and crest,
Canon and pass we've scanned;
We have seen the best
of the glorious West,
by the trail of the Rio Grande
-Author Unknown

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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter

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