Golovin Bay Railway

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The Golovin Bay Railway (also Wild Goose Railroad was called) a railway company in Alaska ( United States ). It was founded in 1902 by the Wild Goose Company and from June of that year built an approximately eight-mile-long mining railway from Council City to the No. 15 Ophir Creek gold mine . It was completed on July 21, 1902 and opened on August 17 with an excursion train with 150 passengers, for which freight wagons were specially equipped with seats. The line had a gauge of three feet (914 mm) and was shut down again in 1906 as the gold deposits were quickly depleted.

Sources and further information

Individual evidence
  1. ↑ Clifford 1999, p. 207.
  2. ↑ Mike Walker: Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America. Pacific Northwest. SPV-Verlag, Dunkirk (GB), 1998.
literature
  • Howard Clifford: Alaska / Yukon Railroads. An illustrated History. Oso Publishing, Arlington WA 1999, ISBN 0-9647521-4-X , pp. 203-210.