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Tanana Valley Railroad
The Tanana Valley Railroad was a narrow-gauge railroad that operated in the Tanana Valley of Alaska from 1905 to about 1917, when it was purchased by the government and began to be converted to standard gauge as the Chatanika Branch of the Alaska Engineering Commission Railroad, which became the Alaska Railroad in 1923. The TVRR originated as the Tanana Mines Railway in 1905 and was renamed the Tanana Valley Railroad in 1907.
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