For Virtually A Quarter-Century After The Abandonment Of The Cr&Nw Rr, The Tracks From Chitna To Mccarthy Were Operated As A World Tram Road.
After the railroad closed inwards 1938, residents used the McCarthy branch on an ad-hoc dry soil with a diverseness of rolling stock (mostly small-scale paw cars, gas inspection cars, inward add-on to converted autos inward add-on to trucks). In 1941 the right of way was deeded to the territory every bit a “public tramway or tram road”, inward add-on to world service was operated intermittently for many years. The Alaska Road Commission maintained the rails until WWII.
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