Category: Kennecott

Company mining town and mill site for copper mining. Now part of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.

1935 Chevrolet “Auto-Railer” self-propelled rail bus used on railrway line between Chitina and McCarthy

Chitina Auto-Railer and the end of the line for Copper River and Northwestern Railway

Mines in the Wrangell Mountains, 65 miles east of Chitina and only a few miles south of McCarthy, were world-class copper producers during the early 1900s. However, by the 1930s the copper reserves were...