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    The Copper River and Northwestern Railway (CR&NW) consisted of two rail lines, the Copper River line and the Northwestern line. Michael James Heney had...
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    Miles Glacier Bridge (category Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Chugach Census Area, Alaska)
    (315 km) railroad line for the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, built by J. P. Morgan and the Guggenheim family to haul copper from the old mining town...
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    river's mouth. The construction of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway from Cordova through the upper river valley from 1908 to 1911 allowed widespread...
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  • the McCarthy Road which follows the rail bed of the old Copper River and Northwestern Railway from Chitina to McCarthy. Carosso, Vincent (1987). The Morgans:...
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  • The Copper River and Northwestern Railway Bunkhouse and Messhouse are historic railroad worker facilities on Third Street in Chitina, Alaska. The messhouse...
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    The Copper River Highway extends 49.5 miles (79.7 km) from Cordova along the old railbed of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway. Construction began...
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  • Northern Railway Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company Catalla and Carbon Mountain Railway Copper River and Northwestern Railway Council City and Solomon...
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  • storm destroyed their Copper River and Northwestern Railway (CR&NW) in the Katalla - Palm Point area and access to the Bering River coal fields. The principles...
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  • two railroads built in Alaska, the White Pass and Yukon Route and the Copper River and Northwestern Railway. The son of Irish immigrants, Heney rose to...
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    terminus of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway after determining that the neighboring town of Katalla was a poor harbor. Heney and his crew held...
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    under half of the stock in Birch's company and all of the stock in the Copper River and Northwestern Railway. All of this sparked an "anti-Guggenheim"...
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  • List of Class I railroads (category United States railway-related lists)
    Corporation Conrail Copper River and Northwestern Railway Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs Railroad Cumberland Valley Railroad Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg...
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    McCarthy, Alaska (category Census-designated places in Copper River Census Area, Alaska)
    school, a bar and a brothel. The Copper River and Northwestern Railway reached McCarthy in 1911. In 1938, the copper deposits were mostly gone and the town...
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    the Copper River Highway. The peak was named about 1910 by Lawrence Martin, for A. C. O'Neel, Chief Bridge Engineer for Copper River and Northwestern Railway...
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  • McCarthy Power Plant (category Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Copper River Census Area, Alaska)
    McCarthy Creek. It was built in 1917, after the arrival of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway in the area kicked of a building boom. The coal-fired power...
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    that the Copper River and Northwestern Railway (CR&NW) was going to use the town's location as its access to the Pacific Ocean and the Bering River coal fields...
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    and often very rough with many washboards and sharp turns. The route follows the railbed of the defunct Copper River and Northwestern Railway, and utilizes...
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    Chitina Tin Shop (category Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Copper River Census Area, Alaska)
    wide and 33 feet (10 m) deep. It was built in 1912 by Fred Schaupp, during Chitina's building boom following the arrival of the Copper River and Northwestern...
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    assistant engineer for the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, which built a $1,500,000 steel bridge across the Copper River near this mountain in 1909-1910...
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    operated by the McCloud River Railroad. That line extended to Lookout Junction where it connected with the Great Northern Railway mainline just north of...
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    Alaska (redirect from Railways in Alaska)
    Linguistic and DNA studies done here have provided evidence for the settlement of North America by way of the Bering land bridge. At the Upward Sun River site...
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    Chitina, Alaska (category Census-designated places in Copper River Census Area, Alaska)
    the area. Stephen Birch homesteaded the site in 1908. The Copper River and Northwestern Railway enabled Chitina to develop into a thriving community by...
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    state of Chihuahua in northwestern Mexico that is 65,000 square kilometres (25,000 sq mi) in size. The canyons were formed by six rivers that drain the western...
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    Kennecott, Alaska (category Geography of Copper River Census Area, Alaska)
    Kennecott, also known as Kennicott and Kennecott Mines, is an abandoned mining camp in the Copper River Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was...
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    construction of a railway 195 miles (314 km) long and costing $23.5 million at the time of its construction. The Copper River and Northwestern Railway (CR&NW) took...
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    the Copper River Highway at the Miles Glacier Bridge. The mountain was named in 1910 by a survey crew working on the Copper River and Northwestern Railway...
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    two railroads built in Alaska, the White Pass and Yukon Route and the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, was born in Stonecliffe. List of francophone...
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    Historic Places listings in Copper River Census Area, Alaska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register...
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    Wigwag (railroad) (category Railway safety)
    States—including on Alaska's Copper River and Northwestern Railway and on several Hawaiian railroads—and across Canada, Mexico, and as far away as Australia...
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    in Hawaii, Hegg lived in Nome and then in Cordova, where he worked for Guggenheim's Copper River and Northwestern Railway until 1918. Hegg returned to...
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