"They also used to have a big row of Bucyrus-Erie line shovels down at the sort yard, but they buried them in the metal waste site in 2004 I think.
Thanks for the memories!"
Boy, there's sure alot of equipment buried in Alaskan rock pits isnt there? It all either got left, got buried, or barged out into the deep water and pushed off the barges. I know of barges that left camp with 5 running yarders aboard, headed for deep saltwater, only to arrive back in 3 hours later, completely empty. Hundreds of trucks too.
Do you have any pics to post? Much of the Icy Bay gear still sits there rusting, including the yarders, where they will no doubt still be in 50 years. Too remote to go scrapping out there. Poole was in there getting Wasser & Winters out and grabbed a few pieces but not much. Wayne's 2 009's are sitting way out beyond the Cape, all the bridges on the 40-mile mainline got pulled out so the yarders, cats, and all the gear beyond the Cape is there forever now. I still see them from the air once or twice a year and smile.
There's a complete Skagit 739 and Madill 009 tank mount in Brownings yard still as well, along with a bunch of other gear.
Whatever's out there now will be out there forever. No one's going back into that country with a barge in this day and age.
When I tell people the water on the lost coast is so rough all the fuel was delivered by air tanker they dont even believe me.
I guess you just had to be there and see it with your own eyes.
Are you Stormy's boy?