The Tanana Valley Railroad (TVRR) was a 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow gauge railroad that operated in the Tanana Valley of Alaska from 1905 to about 1917. A portion of the railroad later became part of the Alaska Railroad .
6-613: TVRR can stand for three American railroads: The Tanana Valley Railroad , a narrow-gauge railroad in Alaska, operating in the early 20th century The Tulare Valley Railroad (its reporting mark), a small railroad network operating 1992–present in California The Tuscarora Valley Railroad , a narrow-gauge shortline in Pennsylvania, operating in
12-474: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tanana Valley Railroad The TVRR was incorporated as the Tanana Mines Railway in 1904, construction on the first section started and completed in 1905. The main speaker at the gala golden spike ceremony was Judge Wickersham and Mrs. Isabelle Barnett accepted the golden spike. The builder
18-659: The Alaska Railroad (Alaska RR) in 1923. The Alaska RR continued to operate the former TVRR narrow-gauge line as the Chatanika Branch, until decommissioning it in 1930. In 1922, the railroad's Engine No. 1, the first steam locomotive in Fairbanks and the Yukon , was retired. Its restoration was begun in 1997 and completed in 2000. As of 2011 it is still being steamed up several times a year. A small museum for
24-613: The engine was built in 2005 in Pioneer Park . On July 20, 2019, Engine #1 was a star attraction when it operated on its 120th birthday at a reenactment of the TVRR's Golden Spike ceremony. [REDACTED] Media related to Tanana Valley Railroad at Wikimedia Commons This article relating to the history of the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This United States rail–related article
30-467: The late 19th and early 20th centuries Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TVRR . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TVRR&oldid=269912079 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
36-774: Was Falcon Joslin who was called the "Harriman of the North". It was renamed the Tanana Valley Railroad in 1907. The company declared bankruptcy and was liquidated c. 1917. The U.S. government purchased the railroad in June 1917. The section between Fairbanks and Happy was converted to dual gauge by the Alaskan Engineering Commission , in order to complete a 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge railroad line from Seward to Fairbanks. This line became
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