. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ad construction material and suppliesfor this project, which cost $56,000, moved from Seattle. The Alaska railroad is now completed,and traffic is maintained over the entireline from Seward to Fairbanks, a dis-tance of 471 miles. .Seward is an ice-freeport. Branches bring the total mileage tonearl\- 600 miles. An extensive territory amount 222,712Xt72 tons were made up ofagricultural products, 878,645,798 tons ofmining products, 333,150,182 tons of man-ufactured and miscellaneous arti
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ad construction material and suppliesfor this project, which cost $56,000, moved from Seattle. The Alaska railroad is now completed,and traffic is maintained over the entireline from Seward to Fairbanks, a dis-tance of 471 miles. .Seward is an ice-freeport. Branches bring the total mileage tonearl\- 600 miles. An extensive territory amount 222,712Xt72 tons were made up ofagricultural products, 878,645,798 tons ofmining products, 333,150,182 tons of man-ufactured and miscellaneous articles, 148,-138,456 of lumber products, 41,794,508 ofanimals and their products, and 67,165,435of general merchandise. The total tonnage carried as comparedwith the figures of 1920 showed an aver-age decrease of about 25 per cent., butthe haulage of agricultural productsshowed an increase of L2 per cent. The total number of carloads of rev-enue freight carried was 49,834,619. Ofthis numl>er 25,733,740 were carried inFasten! territory. 1,668,177 in the Po-cahontas ^,449,406 in the South-. .SIIlIPlNii K.\;]i CARS TO A^.^SKA. rich in mining and farming is beingoi)ened up. Seward coal fields containingvast areas of high-grade bituminous coalis looked forward to be a great acquisi-tion to the Pacific coast, which, as is wellknown, is lacking coal. Extensive ligniteliclds also will supply the interior countrywith fuel for industrial and domestic pur-lioses, displacing wood, which has beenrapidly disappearing from around theUK re settled districts. The opening ofthe completed railroad by PresidentHarding, accompanied by other high oflS-eials, will call marked attention to thisnotable achievement in railroading, thatwill be of incalculaljle benefit to Alaska,;ind, doubtless, will induce a large influx■ f new settlers. ern district, and ,296 in Western territorv. What Work Railroads Did in the Year1921 In 1921 the Class 1 steam railroadscarried ,617,051 tons
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