Tanana Valley Railroad

Infobox rail
railroad_name=Tanana Valley Railroad
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image_caption = Train of the Tanana Valley Railroad at the station in Chatanika, Alaska, 1916.
locale=Fairbanks to Chatanika
start_year=1904/1905
end_year=1917 AEC purchased TVRR assets and operated the Chatanika Branch line until decommissioning it in 1930
predecessor_line = Tanana Mines Railway
successor_line = Alaska Engineering Commission Railroad a.k.a. Alaska Railroad
gauge = RailGauge|36|al=on|lk=on
length = Convert|45|mi|km [Cite web
title=History
publisher=Alaska Railroad
url=http://www.akrr.com/ARRC119.html
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accessdate=2008-07-17]
hq_city=Fairbanks
website = The Tanana Valley Railroad was a narrow-gauge railroad that operated in the Tanana Valley of Alaska from 1905 to about 1917, when it when into bankruptcy and was liquidated, then purchased by the U.S. government about a month later, and the section between Fairbanks and Happy began to be converted to dual gauge by the Alaska Engineering Commission Railroad to complete the standard-gauge railroad line from Seward to Fairbanks, which became the Alaska Railroad in 1923, and which continued to operate the former TVRR narrow-gauge line as the Chatanika Branch until decommissioning it in 1930.

Name

The TVRR originated as the Tanana Mines Railway in 1905 and was renamed the Tanana Valley Railroad in 1907.

Preservation

In 1922, the railroad's Engine No. 1, the first steam locomotive in Fairbanks and the Yukon Territory, was retired. Its restoration was begun in 1997 and completed in 2000. (As of 2008) it is still being steamed up several times a year. A small museum for the engine was built in 2005 in Pioneer Park.

Map

Location map+ | USA Alaska | border= | caption=Tanana Valley Railroad | float=left | width=600 | places= Location map~|USA Alaska|lon_dir=W|lat_deg=65|lat_min=6|lat_sec=44|lon_deg=147|lon_min=28|lon_sec=38|marksize=4|position=right|label=Chatanika Location map~|USA Alaska|lon_dir=W|lat_deg=64|lat_min=51|lat_sec=19|lon_deg=147|lon_min=43|lon_sec=14|marksize=4|position=left|label=Fairbanks

See also

References

General References

* [http://www.fairnet.org/agencies/tvrr/history.html History of the Tanana Valley Railroad]
* [http://www.fairnet.org/agencies/tvrr/news.html Friends of the Tanana Valley Railroad news archive]
*Cite web
title=Tanana Valley Railroad
publisher=(independent) Alaska Railroad historical organization
url=http://www.alaskarails.org/historical/construction/tvrr/index.html
format=HTML
accessdate=2008-07-17

External links

* [http://206.103.49.193/odds/ak/htm/tvr01.htm Photo of a battery-electric car of the Tanana Valley Railroad]