Officials have launched a plan to alleviate a traffic crunch in the port and railroad town famous for a single building that ...

The Alaska State Fair and Alaska Railroad will once again collaborate for the Alaska State Fair Train in 2025. The train will run the final weekend of the fair, Aug. 29-31. Two round trips will be ...

The railroad was built to open what was then the Alaska territory to development. It connected Seward, a Pacific Ocean port city on the south-central coast, to Fairbanks, 470 miles (756 kilometers ...

Today the Alaska Railroad (which was purchased by the state from the federal government in 1985) has 656 miles of track. The route stretches from the ice-free port of Seward north to the interior ...

The Alaska Railroad route was technically completed more than a year before Harding’s visit, on Feb. 5, 1922. That day, rail was laid at Riley Creek, linking Seward to Fairbanks.

The Alaska Railroad on Saturday, July 15, 2023, commemorated the 100th anniversary of its 1923 golden spike moment in Nenana, Alaska. With a crowd of more than 800, guests included state officials, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago… ...

Whittier, the quirky port town at the western edge of Prince William Sound, is known for keeping people in close quarters.

Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago to mark the completion of the Alaska Railroad.

About 75% of Alaska’s 740,000 residents also live along that stretch, called the rail belt, which Clemens said is a testament to how instrumental the railroad has been to the economic ...