Nostalgia & History > Very Interesting Motor Cars, Not Speeders

These six photos and captions are from Alaska's Digital Archives. Unfortunately there are no dates of but one photograph.


1. Men riding in railroad motor car on Alaska Engineering Commission Railway tracks between Nenana and Fairbanks, Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. AMRC-aec-g2028 Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center

2. View of Alaska Northern Railway (now the Alaska Railroad) car number 2 stopped in front of a railroad depot. UAA-hmc-0778-6-45 University of Alaska Anchorage

3. Photograph shows two railroad employees, one in uniform, standing on the boards of an Alaska Railroad motor car that is parked on the railway track. Several other men, possibly railroad construction workers, are visible to the right. UAA-hmc-0397-11k-2-4 University of Alaska Anchorage


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4. Alaska Northern Ry. Co's Motor Car and trailer Seward Alaska. Photographer: P. S. Hunt. UAF-1980-68-64 University of Alaska Fairbanks

5. The Buick coupe of the Yakutat and Southern Railway. Image of expedition members alongside a car fitted to run along railroad tracks. Near Yakutat. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands. uaa-hmc-0690-s9e-1-40 University of Alaska Anchorage

6. Men standing and sitting among piles of lumber near railroad car on Nome-Arctic Railroad along Nome River, Alaska. Photographer's number 833. n.d. Photographer: O. D. Goetze. AMRC-b01-41-403 Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center

I hope you are finding these unusual motor cars interesting.

Marty Bernard



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/21/14 14:49 by MartyBernard.

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I believe the "railroad car" in #6 is actually an early Class A Climax Locomotive.

Some of those machines belong in the "There's a prototype for nearly everything" file.

Great post!!

Love all the vehicles!

Mike

The Alaska Northern car looks like a Fairbanks Morse #24 self propelled car.