To: Kathy in Alaska
The equipment was driven on. We did not have anything big enough to lift most of the stuff. I was not part of the loading of Equipment and I don't think the dozer I was assigned to was taken up there. We got on the train and took off. We had been stopped a while and someone yelled “There is no engine up front” so we set for a while. Some guys started off to get something to eat and came running back and said that an engine hooked up and we would be moving.
29 posted on
07/06/2016 7:17:01 PM PDT by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: mountainlion
I remember the "rail heads" to Graf also.
My Artillery Battalion would drive our tracked vehicles onto the rail cars, we'd tie them down and then head to the passenger cars to sleep or kick back until we arrived at Graf.
And then off to the dusty or frozen tank trails.
So much fun :-) This was in the mid to late '70's.
31 posted on
07/06/2016 7:28:24 PM PDT by
PROCON
(Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
To: mountainlion
Quite the “adventure” to look back on.
35 posted on
07/06/2016 8:30:25 PM PDT by
Kathy in Alaska
( (~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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