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Vol. 7, No. 34 Week of August 25, 2002
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Right on track — CN Aquatrain celebrates 40 years

Using a little innovative thinking and the shortest water route to Alaska, the Aquatrain moves freight to new frontiers

Mara Severin

PNA Contributing Writer

In the late 1950s, CN’s senior management decided to forge a link between Canada and Alaska with a dream of moving rail cars via barge, across the Gulf of Alaska. On May 3, 1962, while U.S. President John F. Kennedy was dreaming about putting a man on the moon, a barge departed Prince Rupert with 10....

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