May 8—The ice on the Tanana River went out in ... in 1917 when a group of railroad engineers bet a total of $800 trying to guess the precise date and time when the Tanana River would break up.

Apr. 27—The ice on the Tanana River went out ... in 1917 when a group of railroad engineers bet a total of $800 trying to guess the precise date and time when the Tanana River would break up.

Anyone can buy a ticket for $3 and guess the month, date, hour and minute that the ice on the Tanana River will break up and the tripod will fall. The tripod is connected to a clock.

Each spring for more than 100 years, residents have organized a high-stakes guessing game over when the ice will break up on the Tanana River. After a long, cold winter, ...

Most famous is the event cooked up in 1917 by a bunch of railroad engineers who bet on the exact minute the ice on the Tanana River would break up. That first of what became the Nenana Ice Classic ...