🇺🇸 Operator
Train routes operated by Alaska Railroad
3 routes · scenic 3
Alaska Railroad runs 3 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1,326 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Aurora Winter Train at 573 km; the fastest is the Aurora Winter Train, running up to 95 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1923.
The company itself dates to 1914, filed on Wikidata as a national railway. What this page says about the company comes from Alaska Railroad's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q1235460 ↗
Open the world railway map →- Routes here
- 3
- Total length
- 1,326 km
- Countries
- United States
- Fastest
- Aurora Winter Train · 95 km/h
- Longest
- Aurora Winter Train · 573 km
- Oldest line here
- 1923
- Company founded
- 1914
- Type
- national railway
Scenic (3)
- Aurora Winter Train
The winter run north across frozen Alaska flag-stops for bush residents between Anchorage and Fairbanks, often with the northern lights overhead.
Wikipedia ↗ - Denali Star
Twelve hours of wilderness with Denali filling the dome windows, flag stops still serve trailside cabins.
Wikipedia ↗ - Coastal Classic
Skirts the bore-tide flats of Turnagain Arm, then climbs past Spencer Glacier into country no road reaches.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does Alaska Railroad run?
3 of the routes in this atlas are Alaska Railroad services, covering 1,326 km across 1 country (United States). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest Alaska Railroad train?
The Aurora Winter Train, Anchorage to Fairbanks, at up to 95 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 12 h over 573 km.
Does Alaska Railroad run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 3 Alaska Railroad routes listed here are daytime services.
When was Alaska Railroad founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1914, and files it as a national railway. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1923 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries Alaska Railroad runs in
- 🇺🇸 Train routes in United States 62 routes
Other operators in United States
- Amtrak 24 routes
- Amtrak · NCDOT 2 routes