15620 Henderson Road Wasilla, AK 99652 l Alaska Real Estate Properties
Secluded 3 bedroom home on 10 acres with Fish Creek frontage in a private neighborhood w/ coded gate . Covered wrap around porch to compliment the views. Open concept living area with a kitchen update in 2016. Master suite upstairs with loft and attached green house. Home has an large unfinished area under 1st floor with a separate exterior entrance that can be used for storage and more!
To know more about this property or to schedule a showing, please call 907-373-3575 or email Worldwide@thekristancolenetwork.com
Listing courtesy of Kristan Cole, Keller Williams Realty Alaska Group
Alaska Life! Cooking in the bush with Alaska Woman!
Alaska Woman, Jill Davis searing up fresh Ocean caught Pacific Rock Fish!
Alaska railroad steam locomotive #557 on display Moses Lake, WA. 2009
Alaska railroad steam locomotive #557 is on display at Moses Lake, Washington in January, 2009. This locomotive has since been moved to Wasilla, Alaska where it will be returned to operating condition. Check this website for more information
Alaska Railroad Denali Star Train - Anchorage to Fairbanks
Please note: All the clips seen in this video were filmed between 2004 and 2006. The quality of both the clips and my videography from this time period is far inferior to what I do now. That said, I wanted to post some of these clips and I thought this would be the best way to do it. Let me know what you think and as always, enjoy!
All aboard! Come along for a trip to the last frontier - Alaska! The Denali Star is the Alaska Railroad's premier passenger train, traveling 358 miles from Anchorage, AK Fairbanks, AK. This train runs daily from May thru September. Come along as we follow the train to Fairbanks and then return.
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Wasilla, Alaska, seen from the Denali Express, 8/30/08 #2
If you want to see just how small Wasilla, the hometown of VP candidate Sarah Palin is, check out this video taken from the Denali Express, which runs alongside the town's main district. This video shows the town as the train leaves it; another posted video (Wasilla, Alaska, seen from the Denali Express, 8/30/08 #1) shows more of the town's main district.
Barstock Electric Walk Around 2018
A walk around before running at the Scottsdale Live Steamers mini-meet, February 18, 2018.
The Barstock Electric locomotive is my homebrew creation and rides on the 7 1/2 inch rail, popular in the western United States. It comes apart into small enough pieces to be easily transported in my Prius! It takes about 10 minutes to put together or take apart. It runs on two deep cycle lead-acid batteries which drive the two 24 volt motors (one for each part) - all four axles are driven with a chain drive.
I ran for about 4 hours during the day after this short video was done. First run in 2015, this locomotive has been to Train Mountain Railroad a couple of times and run probably a couple of hundred miles on that demanding track!
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The Aurora Winter Train hustles north through Ft. Richardson in the morning fog. Interestingly, this passenger train has 4 covered hoppers tagging along on the rear.
Trail Ride in Matanuska Valley with Friends
After a long slog through some very wet boggy conditions, we finally make it to our destination, which is a ridge well above Sutton, AK.
Railway in Alaska
Railroad in Alaska. Alaska Rail Tours offers rail and passenger service for independent travelers, as well as lodging and sightseeing options so you can customize your vacation.
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Approximately half of Alaska's 710,231 residents (as per the 2010 United States Census) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska is the least densely populated state of the U.S.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
Alaska '35
In 1935, scientist and filmmaker William O. Field documented the work of newly arriving Matanuska Valley Colony farmers in Alaska. These farmers and their families had relocated from the Midwest of the United States to the Matanuska Valley/Palmer area of Alaska as part of a New Deal resettlement plan. The colony was settled by about 200 families seeking relief from the hardships of the Great Depression. Field's film contains scenes of early Alaska Railroad steam engines at work, farmers and their families at work and play, colonists building and moving into houses, and farm machinery ranging from horse drawn wagons to Caterpillar tractors and threshing machines. (B&W/Silent/35mm film).
In 2016, this film was preserved through funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF). Reflex Technologies of Burbank, California, scanned the film and created digital DPX files, which were then output to new 35mm dupe negative and answer print films by Video & Film Solutions of Rockville, Maryland. The original safety print film, new dupe negative and answer print films, and digital files are all being preserved by the Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-21002 from the William O. Field Papers collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Alaska Film Archives is supported by Rasmuson Rare Books Endowment. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
Autumn In Alaska
First project with iMovie apps about my short trip to Portege Glacier and Potter Marsh, Alaska
Alaska Story Time with Aunt Phil, St. Michael Awakens, June 25, 2018
On June 25, 1897, the sleepy old Russian town of St. Michael awoke when the river steamer Alice arrived with 25 miners from Dawson carrying $500,000 among them in gold dust – about $13 million in today’s dollars.
Two days later, the Portus B. Weare carried in another group of successful men who staggered off the small steamer with pokes of gold estimated to be worth up to $175,000. More miners followed and soon news of gold found in the Klondike spread like wildfire.
St. Michael, founded by Russians to trade with the Yup’ik people in 1833, soon became the hub for those with visions of nuggets dancing before their eyes, both coming from and going to the rich fields in the Yukon. Dynamic headlines from newspapers in the Continental United States helped fuel what became known as the Klondike Gold Rush and as many as 10,000 people called St. Michael home during that time period.
The Yukon River, which flows through the region for 2,600 miles, became part of what was known as the all-water route. Stampeders took large steamships from Seattle to St. Michael and then transferred to small river steamers.
It didn't take long for the demand for ships to explode. Ships were pulled off other routes to fill the need, and ships that had been out of service were quickly renovated and placed in the water. Ships built for 140 passengers were outfitted with temporary quarters to carry as many as 500. Soon the Northern Commercial and other companies began assembling steamers, barges and tugs in St. Michael.
Advertised by the Alaska Commercial Company to take about four weeks to complete the journey from St. Michael to Dawson City, most travelers leaving St. Michael on riverboats found the claim to be an optimistic estimate. Not only did the price increase from $150 to about $2,000 at the height of the rush – close to $60,000 in modern money – storms and problems encountered navigating the Yukon River commonly turned the trip into a two-month-or-more ordeal.
In fact, many stampeders spent several months reaching the Klondike during the winter of 1897 because their vessels became trapped in the frozen ice. Of the 1,800 stampeders who chose this route that winter, only 43 reached Dawson City, and of those, 35 had to turn back for lack of supplies, according to information found in the Milepost magazine.
Today, St. Michael is again a small village with about 400 residents.
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Klondike Alaska: A Rail History
For most people, railroads in Alaska and the Yukon are synonymous with the Alaska Railroad and the White Pass and Yukon Railroad whose passenger cars provide tourists with vistas of awe-inspiring terrain. That same terrain provided enormous challenges for early settlers of both territories. Railroads were an integral part of overcoming those challenges. Dozens of other railroads also laid track in Alaska, the Yukon, and northwest British Columbia and provided the means to transport supplies to settlements and to transport the region’s raw materials to outside markets. Klondike Alaska charts the history of many of those railroads. ©KUAC 2005
DVD's of this program are available for purchase at kuac.org.
Alaska's Railroads: Hard Times for the Highballers (1979)
Excerpt from Alaska Review 24. In this segment, Alaska Review reviews the development of Alaska's railroads. Reporter Mark O. Badger examines the role of railroads in Alaska's economy, and future prospects for the Alaska Railroad. Reporter Eric Eckholm explores hardships facing the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad. Those interviewed include: Mike Kopcha, Alaska Railroad engineer; Bill Dorcy, Alaska Railroad general manager; Daniel Alex, president of Eklutna, Inc.; Red Swanson, Juneau lobbyist; Athol Rytallack of the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad in Whitehorse; an unidentified railroad worker in Skagway; and Everett Hamme, job steward for the Teamsters union at Skagway. Program contains views of historical photographs of Alaska railroads, Alaska Railroad cars and engines, railworkers and train conductors, Whitehorse, and White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad winter operations. (Sound/Color/2-inch quad videotape).
Airing from 1976 to 1987, Alaska Review was the first statewide public affairs television program in Alaska. The show was designed to explore public policy issues confronting Alaska, and to assist citizens in making decisions about the future of their land. Produced by Independent Public Television, Inc., (IPTV), the series eventually consisted of 16 one-hour shows, 46 half-hour shows, and one three-hour special broadcast. Funded through the Alaska Humanities Forum and State of Alaska, the series won multiple awards for public service and educational programming. IPTV dissolved in 1988. Videotapes for all finished productions and raw footage were later moved to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), where they became housed with the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives department in the Rasmuson Library at UAF, shortly after the unit was founded in 1993. The Alaska Film Archives is currently seeking funding to preserve and digitize all of the original full interviews gathered in the making of the Alaska Review series. Copies of finished productions are also held by Alaska State Library Historical Collections in Juneau. For more information, please contact the Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-4969 from the Alaska Review collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Alaska Film Archives is supported by the Rasmuson Rare Books Endowment. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
MATANUSKA, ALASKA
On the town of Matanuska. Reel 1, a train arrives and passengers detrain. Reel 2 shows a house under construction, a farmer plowing, and views of cafes, a store, and the post office. Reel 3 shows views of the post office and a grocery store. Reel 4 shows the Matanuska Valley Pioneer office. Twin babies are weighed and measured in a hospital. Reel 5, people dance at a community hall. The volunteer fire department fights a fire. Reel 6, horses and mules are unloaded from box cars and auctioned. Reel...
Date: 1931 - 1937
Creators: Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration. 7/1/1939-6/30/1943 (Most Recent)
From: Series: Motion Picture Films, 1931 1922 - 1937 1944
Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944
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Alaska Ski Train from Anchorage to Curry
Ski Train 2016, organized by the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage. Historic Curry is 10 miles north of Talkeetna and accessible only via the rail road. BYOB, party car, potlucks, and full views of Denali!
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The Lifeline of Alaska: Alaska Railroad
The Alaska Railroad has been around for very long time, since 1903 to be exact. Over its 100 years of service it has continued to play a very large role in the Alaskan economy. It’s probably most well known for providing passenger services from Seward to Fairbanks. But freight is actually its largest revenue source. On the sustainability side of the coin it has real estate, about 35,000 acres spanning the whole state. The AKRR is a staple in the Alaskan community, not only because of the work horse it is known as, but also for the communities it serves that have been built along the tracks laid so many years ago.
One of the very cool and unique things the AKRR does is called a “Flag stop.” No matter the season, this railroad is one of the last in the nation to provide flag stop service. Folks who live in bush communities or remote cabins can wave down the train and hop on or off at any place along the tracks. This is an essential function for Alaskans who live an isolated lifestyle and are part of the very small population that lives way off the grid.
The Alaska Railroad has been around for many years and has been an accredited business with the Better Business Bureau for over 34 years. When I knew that my co-worker was going to be coming to Alaska to film businesses for the “Building a Better Business” video series I knew I wanted to capture the mystique of these big, beautiful blue and gold rail cars and engines and all that they do, and have been doing for over 100 years.
To learn more visit bbb.org/northwest.
Scenes from southeast Alaska
Alaska photographer Howard C. Robinson presented these scenes from southeast Alaska. Clips include footage of Ketchikan's port and totem poles, Wrangell, the totem park on Shakes Island, the Sitka Pioneer Home and St. Michael's Cathedral, Skagway shops, the start of the Trail of '98, train travel along White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, and Inspiration Point. (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-11895 -- AAF-11896 from the Michael Wilson - Florence and Charles Van Clark collection, held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. See also the Howard C. Robinson collection. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.