Alaska Highway

This is a really outstanding WW2 film in full colour of the construction of the Alaska Highway - one of the great engineering feats of WW2.

Lots of close shots of numerous bits of machinery working for the tractor people and lots of great truck stuff as well.

Runs for 35 minutes but downloads quick enough for most people to watch direct without the usual stop-start of many videos.

Lang

Great find Lang .Interesting film .

thanks for putting that on mate, it's so interesting, ya don't realise those things went on, must have had unlimited resorces. would have been tops to have a play on those dozers but would have been to bloody cold for me. jk

Lang, thanks for putting up this piece of history. Does anyone know if this is still in use over there now? Bloody good footage. cheers Tim

Tim,

The Alaska Highway is still in action - still just a simple fairly narrow road in most places. Not a bad road now but still takes a lot of maintenance. At the top end it is built over permafrost which is starting to melt leaving the roadbase unstable with big "waves" that break up at the end of summer. The Canadians and Americans keep it open all year around with snow blowers etc.

We drove it a few years back in a Fiat 500. If you are interested you can go on our web site
www.next-horizon.org
Just scroll back down on the archives in the blogs in the "Latest News" section to see some photos and read the story.

Lang

Bloody awsome Lang I really enjoy that thanks . Dave

gidday lang and others, watched the alaska highway an thought about the ole trail blazin thing, found a few clips of dozin some roads out the back at home. hope you enjoy. jk like swishy says clicklty click

Some pretty wild and wooly country you have there Knighty .

Great bit of film but must have been an expensive bit of road a bit of explosives may have helped you knighty

thats a steep road hes making.. we are also in the process of making a road on our property near Bulahdelah the guy charges $150 per hour(for a D5N) took him 2 days for one side of the hill ...in the new year im going to try to persuade him to make a road similer to the one your getting done (he doesnt seem keen though!)