Crew and Caterpillar diesel tractor equipped with pipe layer sideboom engaged in construction of ALCANGO pipeline, between Haines and Fairbanks, August 2, 1954

• Main Author: Becksted, Teen
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Tracklaying vehicles; Pipelines > Alaska; Pipes (Conduits) > Alaska; Construction workers > Alaska; Caterpillar tractors; Pipe-laying machinery > Alaska; Fairbanks; Anchorage; Canada; permafrost; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/503

On verso of image: Approved for Release: Alaska District Corps of Engneers, U.S. Army, Anchorage, Alaska. Caterpillar Diesel D6 Tractor equipped with Pipe Layer Sideboom is working on bending operation on pipeline construction between Haines and Fairbanks, Alaska. Filed in Alaska--Alaska Pipeline Description accompanying photograph reads: Pipeline Slashes Through Wilderness -- Through dense forests and over icy mountain passes, across tundra, rivers and permafrost, the famous ALCANGO pipeline, just completed, now carries vital fuels to defense military bases in interior Alaska. The steel fuel artery stretches 626 miles from the port of Haines to Fairbanks in central Alaska, with 280 miles crossing northwest Canada. The $40,000,000 pipeline, built by the American-Canadian contracting combine Williams Brothers-McLaughlin-Marwell, under supervision of the Alaska District Corps of Engineers, will be dedicated in October. Teen Becksted Photo.