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| The original DOT UB50 Boom Truck, a reminder of how things can go wrong and the dangers faced. | Another picture of the old boom truck | The New boom truck | A crane working on a new bridge |
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| Another picture of the crane | If only you knew the load rating on that temporary bridge that crane is crossing.... | One of the reasons the load rating is so low.... note the continuity in the deck.... :P | mmm, spiffy girders on that temp bridge... ;) |
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| Nice splice huh? | Another picture of that spiffy flange. | A picture of the new bridge being built. | The new bridge at the pier connection. Looks good. |
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| The new bridge at the pier connection. Looks good. | The internet connection at Princess... mmm, dialup.... gag me with a spoon. | A little porcupine we spotted | Yes.... phone like this one at the Backwoods Lodge make me mad, especially when High Speed 'net access isn't provided. |
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| The UB50 in action (at Chulitna) | More UB50 action pictures | More UB50 action pictures | a "State" cone.... I think its part of the new "cost saving" measures. |
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| Another "State" cone. | The underside of Chulitna bridge, its a real rats nest under there... | spiffy weld huh? | The room at the Backwoods Lodge |
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| The provided bar-b-q grill at the Backwoods Lodge | Microwave and Refrigerator at the Backwoods lodge. | Good place to eat. Grill your own burger or pizza for dinner, awesome cinemon buns, and all you can eat breakfast buffet starting at 6AM. | The Parks Highway end of the Denali Highway. |
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| A moose along the Denali Highway | The pavement on the Denali Highway quickly ended. This is far more typical of it. | The view along the Denali Highway I | The view along the Denali Highway II |
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| The view along the Denali Highway III | The view along the Denali Highway IV | The view along the Denali Highway V | The view along the Denali Highway VI |
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| The view along the Denali Highway VII | Spiffy road huh? | Susitna River on the Denali Highway | Nifty column huh? That bend isn't really supposed to be there... |
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| The view from the Susitna River Bridge | The view from the Susitna River Bridge | The view from the Susitna River Bridge | Susitna River Bridge on the Denali Highway. |
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| Pelts on the bridge. How the heck they got there, I have no idea. Just one of the many strange things found on bridges. | Flock of geese. | A raven's nest on the bridge | Another picture of the Raven's nest. |
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| More UB50 pictures | More UB50 pictures | More UB50 pictures | More UB50 pictures |
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| More UB50 pictures | More UB50 pictures | The pink stringline is straight from the top to the bottom of the column. | The deflection of the column. |
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| More view from the Denali Highway. | More view from the Denali Highway. | For some reason, this sign (specifically the second language on it) entertains me greatly. | Some big rock. I think its called McKinley. |
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| Another picture of McKinley | Another picture of McKinley | Another picture of McKinley | Another picture of McKinley |
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| Another picture of McKinley | Another picture of McKinley | Hurricane Gulch, BN 258 | View from the bridge |
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| Another picture of McKinley | Another picture of McKinley | Another picture of McKinley | Another picture of McKinley |
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| Another picture of McKinley | Another picture of McKinley | Another picture of McKinley | Another picture of McKinley |
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| The view from my "office" (while on this particular inspection anyway)... | I have this minor fear of heights... I was not enjoying it when my cow-orker felt it necessary to do this.... Also, nice hard hat huh? | Nenana River at Windy | Another picture of McKinley |
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| Denali National Park | Totem Hotel | A pedestrian bridge (under construction) over the Nenana River. I got to check the design of this bridge. | Another picture of that Pedestrian bridge. |
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| A snow plow caught the expansion joint. There it is.... The snowplow didn't fare as well.... | Here is where I crawled into the expansion joint, under the plate they welded above where the joint goes to take some measurements. You can see where the right side was ripped out. | More pictures from inside the expansion joint. It was a little tight in there... | More pictures from inside the expansion joint. |
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| This is the "repaired" pier where Swalling smashed into it with their crane. Note the large post-tensioned top of the pier repair. | Another picture of that pier. Note how far the rocker bearings are leaning.... | The damage to the web from when the crane hit. | I guess they use this pier as a "rock climbing wall". |
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| I didn't see any "no spawn munching" signs.... must be an oversight. | The bucket isn't supposed to lean that far back. That is how far back it creeps after about a minute or two. Its because the manufacturer (Aspen Aerials) sucks. | This is probably my favorite picture of the trip. Alaska Railroad emerging from the tunnel by BN 1143 (Nenana River at Moody). | More Train pictures. |
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| More Train pictures. | More Train pictures. | More Train pictures. | More Train pictures. |
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| The Alaska Railroad just North of Denali Park. | The Alaska Railroad just North of Denali Park. | The Alaska Railroad just North of Denali Park and some Rafters in the Nenana River. | More rafters in the Nenana. |
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| More rafters in the Nenana. | Some helicopters flew overhead. | more pictures of the helicopters. | more pictures of the helicopters. |
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| The microwave and refigerator in the Totem. | This is why the Totem Cafe is my favorite place to eat along this trip. The food was pretty good too. | Still no "don't spawn munch" signs. | The train entering the tunnel. |
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| Another picture of the train entering the tunnel. | Another picture of the train entering the tunnel. | You know you are in Fairbanks when.... there are more outlets in the parking lot than in your room.... | Its not North Pole without (no the answer isn't Meth).... Santa Clause house. |
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| an old SAAB with a trailer | an old SAAB with a trailer | The waters mixing were kinda cool looking.... I should have captured a video of it. It was kinda like a natural lava lamp. | These had a nice smell. |
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| another picture of the flowers. | more of them | The Buffalo Center Dinner was cool. They had both the Ten Commandments and Fox News on the wall. :D The blue van is the 'ratler, and the white van next to it is our F450. | A little ice still in the Robertson River.... |
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| My cow-orker demonstrating the proper atire (orange hard hat and vest) for flagging. :D | One of the work platforms for repairing the bearings on Robertson River. | More ice in the Robertson River | More ice in the Robertson River |
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| The new bearings on Robertson River. | Another picture of the new bearings. | The long rickety stairway from the work platform. The things I do for you people. | A jacked up bearing. |
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| More jacked up bearing pictures | More jacked up bearing pictures | More jacked up bearing pictures | More jacked up bearing pictures |
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| More jacked up bearing pictures | The exercise equipment in the Westmark Tok. | The Westmark Tok | Fast Eddie's. Very good (and huge) breakfast. BTW, that is Jay (our boom truck driver) grinning at the camera. |
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| This is an odd bridge because the cables from the pier to the girders... | This rail is a little low.... its more like a launch ramp than a rail.... | Note the missing column on Chistochina No. 2's second pier from the closest abutment. | A spur dike. They work great, and (sarcasm)environmentalists love them(/sarcasm). |
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| Another picture of the spur dike. | On the road to Valdez. | On the road to Valdez. | Bridal Veil Falls |
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| Bridal Veil Falls | Bridal Veil Falls | Bridal Veil Falls | Bridal Veil Falls |
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| Bridal Veil Falls | Horsetail Falls | Horsetail Falls | Horsetail Falls |
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| Horsetail Falls | Horsetail Falls | Horsetail Falls | Horsetail Falls |
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| The VCR, refrigerator, and TV in the Valdez Aspen. | A badger or something | A badger or something | Out Dayville road by the Alyeska Terminal. |
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| Out Dayville road by the Alyeska Terminal. | Out Dayville road by the Alyeska Terminal. | Kenny Lake | McCarthy |
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| McCarthy Pedestrian Bridge | St. Elias range | St. Elias range | St. Elias range |
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| An old (now abandoned) train trestle along the road to McCarthy | A gorge on the way to McCarthy | The bridge over the gorge. | The bridge over the gorge. |
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| All the fish wheels..... almost at Chitna | The narrow little gateway to the road to McCarthy. | Uncle Tom's Tavern... LOL. | The Richardson Highway and the pipeline. |
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| Another picture of the pipeline from the Richardson Highway. | Yes, we strictly obeyed the speed limit (55 miles per hour) on our drive to Fairbanks. | ||
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