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Article: Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Workers Visit Creation Years after 1977 Opening.
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2002
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Byline: Mike Coppoci
Jul. 14--A couple in their mid-60s from Skiatook stop at Sheep Creek Canyon a few miles outside of Valdez, Alaska.
High above them is a massive pipe, held in place by a cobweb of suspension cables.
"I dangled from safety ropes bouncing me around in the wind as I worked on that monster," the man tells his wife.
The pipeline he is referring to is the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, stretching more than 800 miles from the Arctic Ocean across three major mountain ranges and the Yukon River to the port of Valdez on the Pacific Coast.
More than 70,000 workers -- most from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas -- built ...