This Day…

Posted on by Chris Enss

1915-President Wilson announced the selcetion of a route for the projected Alaska Railroad.  Government funds will pay for the railroad from Seward to Fairbanks via the Kenai Peninsula.  Construction is begun in 1915, using the well-worn equipment and rolling stock that has recently built the Panama Canal.  In the summer of 1923, President Harding will tour the completed railroad.