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[KevinKorell]

From Anchorage, AK Daily News, 9/12/04:

The number of Alaska Railroad employees jumps from around 700 to 900 every summer to manage the passengers on the railroad's own yellow and blue passenger cars as well as the cruise line cars the railroad pulls under contract.

Find this article here.

[both-places-bill]

An interesting fact from our trip on Alaska Rail this summer. The car attendents on the Railroad portion of the train are high school students on summer jobs. State law does not allow Students to take jobs that will keep them away from home overnight. The run takes 12 hours so if they went the whole way (like the attendents on the cruise ship cars) they would be away from home over night. So when the two trains meet half way they stop and the students exchange trains. This puts them all home for the night. Good solution which makes everyone happy.