Alaska Railroad Museum & Nenana Depot |
99760 Nenana, AK, United States of America (USA) (Alaska ) |
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Address |
900 A St.
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Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Opening times
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Operated by volunteers of Friends of the Tanana Valley Railroad, who became caretakers of the Alaska Railroad Depot in 2020. Monday - Friday 9am - 6pm |
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Status from 07/2023
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Free entry, donations welcome. | ||||
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Homepage | www.tananavalleyrailroad.org/ |
Location / Directions |
Nenana developed as a Lower Tanana community at the confluence where the tributary Nenana River enters the Tanana. The City also attracts independent travelers with such attractions as the Alaska Railroad Museum, the Golden Railroad Spike Historic Park and Interpretive Center, Iditarod dog kennels, and a replica of the sternwheeler Nenana. Nenana Alaska is located at mile 305 of the Parks Highway. This historic community / Athabascan Native Village is 56 miles from Fairbanks and 75 miles north of Denali National Park. Nenana has air, river, road and railroad access. The George Parks Highway provides road access to Fairbanks and Anchorage. A boat landing at the end of 10th street turning west off the George Parks Highway provides free boat access to the Nenana River. A short distance north of the landing is the confluence of the Nenana and Tanana rivers, so boaters have easy access to the river system of the Tanana River and Minto Flats. |
Description | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Railroad Depot was completed in 1923. That year, United States President Warren Harding arrived to drive the final, golden spike at the north end of the 700-foot-long (210 m) Mears Memorial Bridge built over the Tanana River as part of the state's railroad project. This railroad truss bridge, the longest in the United States and its territories when completed, gave Nenana a rail transportation link north to Fairbanks and Seward, Alaska. The bridge still ranks as the longest span in Alaska and the third-longest truss bridge in the United States. The railroad provides daily freight service. The Nenana Municipal Airport offers two landing areas: a lighted, asphalt runway 5,000 feet long by 100 feet wide, and an airstrip, turf, 2,520 feet long by 80 feet wide. The airport also has landing areas for float planes and ski planes. |
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