Tagged: Alaska Railroad

Fairbanks coal bunkers were the last of their kind in Alaska

Coal bunkers as they looked in 1994 Fairbanks was never a coal-mining town, but coal did help Fairbanks recover from the lean times of the late 1910s and early 1920s. In 1910 about 11,000...

Fairbanks Exploration Company revived Early Fairbanks

  Old FE Company office building on Illinois Street in Fairbanks This drawing depicts the Fairbanks Exploration Company office building as it looked in 1992. This stately building, constructed in 1926, was the first...