Posted on 06/05/2004 6:48:42 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Standing near the end of the line of Friday, Gov. Frank Murkowski said it was just a beginning.
In a Friday afternoon ceremony held a few miles from the terminus of the Alaska Railroad at Eielson Air Force Base, Murkowski ratified a pair of bills meant to facilitate an extension of the railroad another 80 miles to Fort Greely.
The governor pitched the bills--two of eight bills he signed on Friday in and around Fairbanks--as a first step toward connecting the Alaska Railroad to the North American rail system some 1,100 miles away.
"What this does is move us one step closer with a rail line linking us--where?--to the rest of the world," Murkowski said.
Though the railroad bills don't actually set anything in motion--the proposed railroad extension will only come about if the state secures Department of Defense funding--Murkowski still called the occasion a historic event.
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