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From: George Myers <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Nov 13, 2006 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: Horse whims
To: Andy Higgs <[log in to unmask]>
No I don't but here's a good site of one being built:
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/knatts-lane-horse-whim-construction-progress.htm
Was the horse whim associated with metal cable? I was up the Chilkoot
on the 4th of July 1980 with a William and Mary recent grad Ross
Becker and we saw one location with some cable on it just off the
trail. Thanks for pointing it out I hadn't thought of the "Valley of
Horses" in awhile.
I once worked in the initial archaeology of the NPS Allegheny Portage
Railroad which used I think an early wire rope created by Roebling who
went on to build famous suspension bridges. It replaced the manila and
hemp ropes that sometimes broke on the inclined planes which caused
the special brake to deploy on the flatcar carrying the canal barge up
and over the mountains until the Horseshoe Bend was constructed for
the railroads.
We worked for the NPS on the Alaska's first rail station and the Moore
Cabin archaeology in Skagway, Alaska the Mount St. Helens summer.
George Myers