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...Haines cutoff was slammed through the wilds this year, now carries some truck traffic. Scheduled to be finished before freeze-up this fall, it shortens the truck haul to Fairbanks by a thousand miles, supplements existing rail and water routes to the interior...
...getting out of Alaska-A. R. R. employes get a 26-day vacation with pay each year so they can do it). Last week in New Deal Washington Republican Ohlson was getting ready to ask Congress for an appropriation of some $5,000,000 to build a 14-mile cutoff to the sea some 66 miles above Seward (see map) to make the Fairbanks-to-the-States run faster and cheaper. Because the U. S. is jittery about its Alaskan defenses (Russian Siberia is only 50 miles from the westernmost point of Alaska), and because the Army...
Until last June the Moffat Line ran west from Denver through the Moffat Tunnel, down the western slope of the Rocky Mountains and out into the sagebrush where it stopped 346 mi. short of Salt Lake City. When Denver & Rio Grande Western completed the Dotsero Cutoff which linked the Moffat Line to its main line into Salt Lake, Denver for the first time in history was on a through transcontinental route (TIME, June...
Before Denver & Rio Grande broke ground for the Dotsero Cutoff, it bought control of the Moffat Line. But the Interstate Commerce Commission required the Denver & Rio Grande to buy any or all minority stock offered for the same fat price paid for control. For these various undertakings Denver & Rio Grande needed RFC assistance, and in a deal which the New York Herald Tribune rated as "one of the most complicated and most involved in railroad history," Mr. Jones ended up with practically all of the Moffat stock in his bulging portfolio of collateral. To "keep in touch with the situation...
...West Coast- two double-header freights loaded with Nebraska corn, Colorado coal, stoves, grits, lumber, hoboes. Instead of going around through Pueblo to the south or Cheyenne to the north, they bored under the Continental Divide, rattled down the Denver & Salt Lake, switched off on the new Dotsero Cutoff to Denver & Rio Grande Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake, six railroad presidents and several thousand rejoicing citizens rode out on a fleet of trains, shuttled back & forth over the Cutoff, held...