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Richard Flynn  > 2009 > North America Travel 2009 > Alaska, August 2009
Ice sculptures and vintage cars add to the more oft-seen sights of Alaska. My time was marred by some poor weather but I did at least see Mt McKinley from the train.
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Richard Flynn > The Chena River, which runs through the city of Fairbanks.
Richard Flynn > The Lend-Lease Monument in Fairbanks commemorates the collaboration between the USA and Russia during WWII, when equipment and supplies were transported across Alaska and Russia to reach the eastern front.
Richard Flynn > The route of the Alaska-Siberia Lend-Lease Airway during WWII.
Richard Flynn > ‘We flew in the same sky’, commemorating the operation of the Lend-Lease Airway across Alaska and Siberia during WWII.
Richard Flynn > The Lend-Lease Monument in Fairbanks commemorates the collaboration between the USA and Russia during WWII, when equipment and supplies were transported across Alaska and Russia to reach the eastern front.
Richard Flynn > Ice sculptures in the Fairbanks Ice Museum. Visitors are invited to go into the glassed-in freezers where the sculptures are kept to look at (but not touch!) them up close. For the record, 20ºF is cold.
Richard Flynn > An ice sculpture of a dog-sled team in the Fairbanks Ice Museum.
Richard Flynn > A 1905 Oldsmobile Model B Curved Dash Runabout, which cost $650 when new. (In the Fountainhead Antique Car and Auto Museum, Fairbanks.)
Richard Flynn > A 1908 Rambler Model 31 5-passenger touring car, built by the Jeffrey Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin. The manufacturers claimed that one man could easily convert the vehicle into a flat-bed truck. (In the Fountainhead Antique Car and Auto Museum, Fairbanks.)
The Chena River, which runs through the city of Fairbanks.
> The Chena River, which runs through the city of Fairbanks.
The Chena River, which runs through the city of Fairbanks.
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