Re: Seward Peninsula Railroad

There were two railroads that ran on the Seward
Peninsula...One was a 3 foot narrow gauge line
that ran from Nome northward up past Anvil Mountain into the interior for 30 or 40 miles. As far as I know there are no engines or cars remaining from this road, although some of the trackage is still in place. They called it the "Wild Goose RR"
It ran in the early days from around 1900 to probably about 1910, then with dog-powered or gas powered cars some considerable time after that. I think one of the boilers from one of the original engines is dumped in the Bering Sea just off Nome...The water is very shallow there and you can sometimes see it when the tide blows way out in a strong north wind.
The other railroad (Seward Peninsula RR) ran from Solomon at Port Safety on the Norton Sound Coast about 35 miles east of Nome. It was standard gauge and ran back northward into the interior 20 miles or so to some mines in the area. The engines and some cars are still sitting where they were left to rust at the Solomon terminus. The tracks were taken up long ago. Not much left now, the engines are rusting away quickly. They appeared to be Tank type engines, not sure of the weel arrangement. Been about 20 years since I was there to look at them. You see post cards with the pictures of these artifacts a lot...they called it "the railroad to nowhere".