Wednesday, September 20, 2006

The old railroad bridge to McCarthy. It carried copper ore from the mountains down to Cordova, where the ore was shipped to the smelting plants on the West Coast. The last copper shipment was in 1938. After that, locals used the bridge for driving. The last person to cross it in a car reportedly did so in 1968. Now it is a relic, slowly being consumed by the vast wilderness.

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