Building the Alaska Highway!!

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

Airing Monday night at Ten PM locally on Vermont PBS channel 43 on cable-Check your local US cable listings in your individual areas-Maybe we'll see a few CMP's!!??

=This has been a Public Service Announcement=

Now back to regular programming

OH yes,almost GO PATRIOTS=Happy Super Bowl!!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Garry Shipton
Maybe we'll see a few CMP's!!??

Hmm, US-built Dodges, Chevrolets and Fords are more likely. 1/2 ton Dodges, 1-1/2 ton Chevrolets and Ford/Marmon-Herringtons seem to have been to most numerous, all 4x4 of course. Click here to see a survivor of the Canol Project.

Enjoy the show, I wish I could view it.

H.

[Norm Cromie (RIP)]

Hi Hanno:

In the late 70's my wife and I took a trip to Alaska in the hope of seeing some of the old Highway before the new one was completed as the new highway had bypassed a lot of the old highway. It would have been a dream for you chaps in vehicle restoration. As you know when some of the vehicles broke down, rather than repair them they just pushed them off the side of the road. The only problem is you would have had a hell of a problem getting them back on the road. The trip sure played hell with our van, but seeing many of the old buildings and bridges in ruin the trip was worth it. Here are a couple of the photos we took.

Norm.

[Norm Cromie (RIP)]

Here is the second picture like some of the others, have not learned to send two pictures.

[JD Baillie]

Norm,

A trip my wife and I are currently planning. Not for next year but when the kids near the end of college.
How far up did you get? McKenzie delta? Land looks stunning. You must have caught the three weeks of summer bang on!

More Pics! More Pics!

JD
Vic BC

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

Saw one scene with a CMP C60,it looked like a dumpster,no tarp, leading a convoy of Dodges.All kinds of ,Dodges and bulldozers.

[Bill Mulholland]

Watched the first five minutes before the damn lazy-boy got the best of me!!
Cheers, Bill

[Snowtractor]

How many pics do you want? I drove it in 2003 also the Cassier Highway. Very pretty country but not much of the old road left, you can see pieces of it as you drive along the nice and smooth paved highway. The last large bridge burned in 2001 or so do to vandalism. Even where the southern road and nothern road met up , Contact Creek, there was a little marker with some info on it and that was it. However, that said, looking around and using your imagination to remove the road and see what the boys had to cut through, to make the Alcan, staggers the imagination.
Sean

[JD Baillie]

'bout near as many as you care to post. It's a part of the world not many see.

JD

[Snowtractor]

HI JD,
if you PM me your email address I'll fire them off to you in small format. There are a few and unless everyone wants to see them this isn't the place to post them unless MV specific sort of thing. The MV pics I posted here http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/sh...ighlight=alcan

Sean

[Norm Cromie (RIP)]

Snowtractor:

When we drove the Alaskan Highway we had to use a construction service road as they were building the Cassier highway. They had only completed about 60 miles of the northern part of the highway and I can tell you it was one wild ride. You can't believe what it did to one of our new steel belted tires. It literally tore it to ribbons. But the trip was well worth it. We took the Denali Park bus ride to the base of McKinley and took this photo in the middle of July. We would highly recomend a trip to Alaska and allow some time for the Yukon, it is so rich in history but people with short arms, DO NOT FEED THE BEARS.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Norm Cromie
In the late 70's my wife and I took a trip to Alaska in the hope of seeing some of the old Highway before the new one was completed as the new highway had bypassed a lot of the old highway. It would have been a dream for you chaps in vehicle restoration.

Hi Norm, I'd like to do such a trip when my kids are a little older, not for looking at rusty old trucks but at the stunning scenery.

like some of the others, have not learned to send two pictures

End of learning curve - you can only attach one picture at a time.

Cheers,
Hanno

[Snowtractor]

2003 sept

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The turn

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Another beautiful mountain

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Along the cassiar

[Snowtractor]

there were a few stunners

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even more beauty

[Snowtractor]

on the CASSIAR

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notice the rotor clouds coming off the tip of this mountain.

[Snowtractor]

This area was surrounded by mountains and two valleys. If I had a camper at the time I would have camped there a day or two. Very nice and no traffic or noise or bugs, but that is the benefit of going in mid Sept.

[Snowtractor]

abm

[Norm Cromie (RIP)]

Hi Snowtractor:
Great pictures, as you will agree you have to actually travel through British Columbia on to the Yukon and up through Alaska to see the true beauty of the country. Just don't take this trip in the middle of winter.

[Snowtractor]

here...note the red arrow.

[Snowtractor]

Yukon Alcan highway.

[Snowtractor]

if you want to get a feel for the road as it was then this is the road you have to drive.

[Snowtractor]

226km gravel no services. This road represents the BEST the Alcan highway acheived before being rebuilt to more modern and wider standards. The ALCAN was 100 times worse than this segment, and this segment would not allow 2 Studebaker 6x6's to pass each other. It goes up down and around with blind corners and steep fall offs . I drove it for 80k beofre I turned around, impossible to imagine 1600km of it in worse condition.

[Snowtractor]

Another view of a wider section

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teslin if I remember right

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water source in the Yukon