Cut and fill techniques used to improve the grade and alignment of the Army road; Burwash Landing on Kluane Lake. Original caption: 43-3971. As Utah Construction Co. equipment improves the grade and alignment of the Army road by Goose Bay, Kluane Lake, the cat in the foreground is used to keep the road open to traffic. The road building equipment is making a cut directly across the road just ahead of the cat in the foreground and at the same time is using the material to build a fill in the clearing to the left. (The white streak in the clearing is a placed culvert.) It is then necessary for t
Cut and fill techniques used to improve the grade and alignment of the Army road; Burwash Landing on Kluane Lake. Original caption: 43-3971. As Utah Construction Co. equipment improves the grade and alignment of the Army road by Goose Bay, Kluane Lake, the cat in the foreground is used to keep the road open to traffic. The road building equipment is making a cut directly across the road just ahead of the cat in the foreground and at the same time is using the material to build a fill in the clearing to the left. (The white streak in the clearing is a placed culvert.) It is then necessary for the equipment to return by way of the Army road to make their next pass. Section B2. Army Strip Map W. August 14, 1943. Photo by Pinkstaff. Original caption: 43-3972. Burwash Landing on Kluane Lake. This spot served as a base for Public Roads Administration Survey Parties and for construction soldiers of the Corps of Engineers. For a number of years big game hunting parties have started out from here. Also, one of the few cows of the entire Yukon territory was quartered here. Section B2. Milepost near 1365. August 14, 1943. Photo by Pinkstaff. State: Alaska.
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