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Last Train Out

The last days and abandonment of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway

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"Last Train Out:"    November 10, 1938 at Kennecott

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One of the two pusher engines at Chitina prepares to return to Cordova,
Nov 11, 1938 

Mikado Engine #74 steams up at Chitina for the final return trip to Cordova, Nov 11, 1938

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Abandoned boxcars on Kotsina Hill, CRNW MP 133

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Abandoned CRNW stock car at Chitina ~2005

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Coaches, engines, and other rail stock at the
Cordova Roundhouse following abandonment of the rail right-of-way in 1943

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Engine #3 abandoned near Katalla

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