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fo facilitate the handling of pas* sengers, freight and express across the Nenana river after the freezenp:and until such time as the ice ■ is- / z 1solid on the Tanana river a temporary roadbed has been graded running from. North Nenana along the side. of the hill to a point nearly opposite the docks and warehouses on the south side of the river.Rails have been laid on this newroadbed and everything is ready forits operation just as soon as the river closes. This new arrangement ] will permit, of the trains coming to within about a thousand yards of the south dock and reduces the diszance now traversed by more than|ta mile.Mr. Frederick D. Browne, engineerin charge, stated that this is onlya temporary arrangement and that it was his intention to lay rails on the river ice from Nenana to connect with the trains at North Nenana just as soon as the ice hardened sufficiently to bear the weight of I the- trains.Rails were laid on the river ice and : rains were operated regularly twoyears ago, and the service was entirely satisfactory.
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Fairbanks Weekly News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Fri, Oct 15, 1920
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