Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Mining engineer Earl Pilgrim filmed these scenes, which include bulldozers and several Cat train operations on the Stampede Trail from Lignite to Stampede in Interior Alaska, circa 1940s. In these highlights from the film, Cat trains make their way across roadless terrain, crossing rivers and hauling ore. Ore is unloaded onto an Alaska Railroad flatcar at Lignite. Also pictured are an unidentified woman feeding Earl's malemute Kobuk, and Stampede mine operations including the emptying of ore cars (Color/Silent/16mm film).
These scenes are highlights from AAF-744 of the Earl Pilgrim 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. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
Mining engineer Earl Pilgrim filmed these scenes, which include bulldozers and several Cat train operations on the Stampede Trail from Lignite to Stampede in Interior Alaska, circa 1940s. In these highlights from the film, Cat trains make their way across roadless terrain, crossing rivers and hauling ore. Ore is unloaded onto an Alaska Railroad flatcar at Lignite. Also pictured are an unidentified woman feeding Earl's malemute Kobuk, and Stampede mine operations including the emptying of ore cars (Color/Silent/16mm film).
These scenes are highlights from AAF-744 of the Earl Pilgrim 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. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
