This view of the Kenai Mountains and the Turnagain Arm waterway is from Beluga Point along the Seward Highway. Those railway tracks date back to 1903. That is when the first Alaskan railroad only traveled about 50 miles between Anchorage and Seward. By 1914, the Alaska Northern Railway Company extended service to Fairbanks and by 1917 it employed over 4,500 workers. It is now managed by the state and continues to provide commercial and tourist transportation services across about 500 miles.