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Abandoned, Then Embraced: The Kinsol Trestle

 

 

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The first thing I would talk about when it comes to challenges is the location; it has been a significant challenge. There's only two roads in, both are narrow, winding gravel roads. When it snows and gets icy, like it has in the last couple weeks, trucks are not moving quickly on that road and some of them just, flat out, can't make it. So the location is definitely a challenge. It's a challenge to get cell phone service out there, and the internet. So when you've got a permanent crew out there for over a year, that's difficult and challenging when communication is an issue off site. So that's an interesting challenge that we've been able to overcome the best that we can. It's funny, because every sub contractor that comes on site recognizes that right away. There are some unique location challenges and geographic challenges, of course the hill itself is also a significant challenge. The other day we had four cranes on site - all active - and a giant Caterpillar had to lower each one up and down the hill, because it's too dangerous to even try to negotiate the hill without that kind of back up. They had to build engineered crane pads for these large cranes, and in order to build those they had to run gravel trucks up and down the hill, again, everyone one of those gravel trucks had to be lowered down by a Caterpillar and brought back up by a Caterpillar.

 

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