Trans Alaska Pipeline Progress Report

1977 Alyeska Pipeline construction progress report (Color/Sound/16mm). Alyeska is a consortium of companies that own the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) The report gives a good overview of the challenges faced during construction of the 800 mile-long pipeline.
This sequence is an excerpt from AAF-6045 from the Pendleton and KTVF Collections held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
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[@pottery27]

I was there and the welders were 798 Local welders on the pipe outside the pump stations. Maybe in the pump station but not the pipe.

[@allistairc123]

4 min 20 = holy shit

[@LONGBEACHPUNKROCK]

UNION Local 250 Los Angeles
STEAMFITTERS/WELDERS Were There!!!!

[@pottery27]

Lotsa people would show up for work there and look over the edge and quit! It was some dangerous stuff. Every bulldozer had another bulldozer holding it with a winch cable.

[@pottery27]

Not me buddy!! I was there insulating the pipe at 19 years old. Should be dead from all the drugs we did working all those hours!!! Too damn much fun!!

[@Bill-cv1xu]

Pud row bay,lol

[@iloveRUSSIAAA]

not even close to true

[@ghettobrown209]

everybody in this video is dead now

[@bornagainn81]

DankTech I'm not.

[@crowleywilliam1]

I am not