" Last Bridge to Nowhere"... (sales, buying, linear)

[Captain Crunch]

Originally Posted by starlite9

I know, facts really screw up babble...

The only facts related to you is that you're here and made 392 meaningless posts

392 posts full of gibberish carppolla...... will that end anytime soon

[Barkingowl]

Originally Posted by Captain Crunch

well...that is certainly a lotta gibberish.....you're damn good at that

You're being more polite than normal. Are you feeling ill?

[Captain Crunch]

Thanks a lot Floyd.....

[Captain Crunch]

Originally Posted by Barkingowl

You're being more polite than normal. Are you feeling ill?

Its early....I'll get rolling here after coffee Barker

Its kinda fun to play with a right wing-nut thats fulla crappolla as usual

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Captain Crunch

The only facts related to you is that you're here and made 392 meaningless posts

392 posts full of gibberish carppolla...... will that end anytime soon

Not a problem, I will speak in easier terms for you to grasp....

[stiffnecked]

The railroad to nowhere did go somewhere. After the Council/Solomon railroad went belly up it didn't go to waste. Eventually the miners in the area pulled up all the railroad ties and constructed a new road. I walked about 4 miles of it and am not real sure where it ended. I took these pictures back in 1983 and it was still being used then by the miners, prospectors and hunters in the area.

This is the section that follows part of the Casadepaga River.

[JavaPhil]

The old saw went something like. "All roads lead to Rome." In actuality, all roads are part and parcel of the infrastructure of an area. A road increases access, and allows increased commerce and development. The development of the US highways, and the AlCan highway, allowed development of remote areas. They increased cargo shipment via the road system, allowing small towns and farms to ship goods to markets and railheads.

A road may originally go nowhere, but the end of the road becomes somewhere by the time they get down with it. A railroad is nothing more than a development tool of the land. The railbelt in Alaska is part of the lifeblood of Alaska. And by extension, a bridge allows greater access and better communications. Towns in Alaska are defined as bush or on the road system. If they're not on the road, they are bush communities. All bush communities live and die by air and barge access. N'est pa?

[warptman]

Originally Posted by stiffnecked

The railroad to nowhere did go somewhere. After the Council/Solomon railroad went belly up it didn't go to waste. Eventually the miners in the area pulled up all the railroad ties and constructed a new road. I walked about 4 miles of it and am not real sure where it ended. I took these pictures back in 1983 and it was still being used then by the miners, prospectors and hunters in the area.

This is the section that follows part of the Casadepaga River.

Whoa, they had colored film in 1983?

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by stiffnecked

The railroad to nowhere did go somewhere. After the Council/Solomon railroad went belly up it didn't go to waste. Eventually the miners in the area pulled up all the railroad ties and constructed a new road. I walked about 4 miles of it and am not real sure where it ended. I took these pictures back in 1983 and it was still being used then by the miners, prospectors and hunters in the area.

This is the section that follows part of the Casadepaga River.

That is kind of neat info, hadn't heard that before.

The Copper river Rail Road rails were sold off in the 1950's and the guy that bought the rails had pulled them up, mostly starting as close to Cordova side as he could and took them headed to Chitina and then trucked them to Valdez to sell the steel rails overseas.

There was a land slide that kept him from taking them to Cordova.

They were stacked on the dock and were lost in the 1964 earthquake when they fell into the bay, and broke the guy. The million dollar bridge was also damaged when one of the spans fell into the Copper River. It was suppose to have been replaced about seven/eight years ago or so, because if it fell over into the River, it would cost more to remove it, so they repaired the bridge by jacking up the span and resetting it. That was something that the Governor at the time did. Still goes nowhere, but you can get a lot farther now...

Pretty impressive for a bridge that is closing in on over 100 years old and built in the wilderness at the time.

http://i.livescience.com/images/ig14_earthquake_02_02.jpg (broken link)
After the 1964 Earthquake...

Now after the repairs...

[stiffnecked]

Originally Posted by warptman

Whoa, they had colored film in 1983?

Yes, we had colored film. But no digital cameras or personal computers. Times have changed. Oh, and the Honda Big Red three wheeler was the bomb. It sure beat walking.