Dumping quarried rock to widen embankment to full road width; Two gasoline drums welded to serve as a culvert pipe. Original caption: 43-3990. Widening the embankment to the full width of the section by dumping quarried rock. Utah Construction Company working on frozen ground. Section B2. Milepost August 17, 1943. Photograph by Pinkstaff. Original caption: 43-3991. Ingenuity in overcoming handicaps imposed by transportation difficulties and time limitations are evident in many details of construction. Here, gasoline drums, with their ends cut, are welded together to make a metal culver
Dumping quarried rock to widen embankment to full road width; Two gasoline drums welded to serve as a culvert pipe. Original caption: 43-3990. Widening the embankment to the full width of the section by dumping quarried rock. Utah Construction Company working on frozen ground. Section B2. Milepost August 17, 1943. Photograph by Pinkstaff. Original caption: 43-3991. Ingenuity in overcoming handicaps imposed by transportation difficulties and time limitations are evident in many details of construction. Here, gasoline drums, with their ends cut, are welded together to make a metal culvert pipe at a time when impassable roads such as shown in negative # 18 Wh 980 made manufactured pipe delivery almost impossible. Section B2 Army Strip Map 266W. August 17, 1943. Photograph by Pinkstaff. State: Alaska.
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