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<\/a>We headed back out that same driveway from hell.\u00a0\u00a0 From there we drove over to the post office via a very circuitous route.\u00a0\u00a0 Because we took such an odd route there, we drove past an airplane graveyard off to the side of the Fairbanks Airport.\u00a0 There were a lot of planes packed into a pretty small area.\u00a0 Lots of them had their wings hacked off.\u00a0 From the looks of them, they were being used as a parts warehouse.\u00a0 Check out the missing nose cones on many of them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the way back toward our campground, we came upon the back of Pioneer Park, so we drove around to the front and took a stroll thru there.\u00a0\u00a0 First thing we did was to drop by the information booth and asked about the fireworks situation for the 4th.\u00a0 She explained there weren’t going to be fireworks for the 4th, which she said was normal due to the fire danger in the area.\u00a0 At this time there was a very large fire burning just northwest of town.\u00a0\u00a0 She mentioned that in Fairbanks the normal fireworks occur on December 31st: lots of nighttime to actually see them and not much of a fire danger that time of year.<\/p>\n There was an area they called the gold rush town with lots of old cabins and buildings that had been donated and moved there.\u00a0 Now they housed lots of shops selling knickknacks and food.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>The next day we drove downtown to find the Moose Antler <\/a>arch.\u00a0 It was located in a nice park along the river right in the middle of the small downtown.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>We then made our way around the park.\u00a0 We found a large train car with a roof built over it.\u00a0 Turns out it was <\/a> Warren G. Harding’s train car used during his Alaska trip to dedicate the first railroad there.\u00a0 It was well taken care of and the insides were very ornate,\u00a0 being built back in the early 1920’s.\u00a0 The park had a <\/a>small <\/a>train ride that went around the perimeter.\u00a0 I think the fee was $1.\u00a0 It seemed to me we went back in time as we walked into this place.\u00a0\u00a0 We walked into the train museum\/train station building and found a couple of very cool hand cars for riding the rails, both of them made out of wood.\u00a0 Somehow I lost the pictures of those.<\/p>\n<\/a>There was also the Tanana Valley Steam Locomotive No. 1 <\/span>, which had been fully restored, including a new boiler.\u00a0\u00a0 I was told it was going to be pulling the small rail cars around the park on the 4th.\u00a0\u00a0 They cannot use it all that much currently due to it not having a spark arrestor on its firebox.\u00a0 It runs on coal and I guess sparks must come out of the chimney.<\/p>\n