The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-15
RAILROADS BRING MANY CHANGES
 TO ALASKA

TIA Anchorage, Alaska, Aug, 155-tBy rne trafn A; for P2~An tSa I aboard ,r through out the white coated porter, standing with step in hand at the rear of the tSourdough" limited. Glancing along the train it is found to be made Up of express and baggage car, day coach, Pullman sleeper and an ob- servation chair car.
 It seems incongruous that this equipment is ready to dash through the banks of the Panama river, that mighty stream whose mere name con Jured up visions of argonautS dog teams, myriads of caribou and the ed the Panama.
 On July 13 the through freight took the place of the mixed train op- erated heretofore and a regular bi- has been installed.
 Travellers recall trip over this route two years ago. It entailed a mixed train that began to crawl along as it entered the Broad Pass country, where operation extended almost to the last rail laid. Then came the the next roadhouse at Summit, a bleak, desolate spot in winter, jam med in by icy mountains and swept by wintry blasts. Overnight at the continued to Nenana, on the banks of the Panama, down dangerous canyon where the dogsled chung to the beetling cliffs by the teeth of the low zero and only the hardy or those compelled to take. the trip braved
 Today this same county is unfold ed in scenic grandeur from the win dow of the Pullman or the rear plat form of the observation parlor ear, or mayhap while dining in the buffet car ahead. The bleak icy mountains are IY, tn1-i i0IIC arrays the entire spectrum and par ades it before the vision; little rivu- lets rush down from the mountains to join the noble Susitna carrying it's turbulent flood into Cook inlet.
 The system of crossing the Panama in winter on rails laid upon the ice soon will be supplanted by 7oo-foot single steel span bridge with ap- proa ches well above the flood of the stream, the narrow-gauge Panama Valley "dinky' line will retreat be- fore the oncoming of the mogul en- zine and it's serp pent-nke string or modern equipment.
 sF'airbanks," shouts the porter and Old Alaska has vanished, the great land of mystery along the Yukon pc comes but a banal echo Of something that has been, but is no more
 The change has been so sudden and so complete that the old-timers r are to the new conditions. The railroad has wiped away the dog team as means of transportation to the m terior,. the horse-drawn sleigh over the Richardson highway from valdez is but a tourist adventure; automo- piles take the place of the stage in summer and the railroad now serves a country. extending to None on the the northwest and the Arctic slope 10 tne north. down the Panama from falr- banks to the Yukon and up the 1u- koa to Dawson-a veritable aoVen- ture for the tourist who has apsofp- of the days or SO
 The old-timer says the Dawson days will come again: where, he IS unable to state; but the lure or the "shove1-in'' ground beckons ana as +ha rsiIroad threaded north the pros pector broke new trails. What the future holds for the dreamer IS as problematic as the first venture into the forbidding country that mas so sIddenIv been transformed into a re- zion wherein the most delicate may live and prosper.