Image from a poster showing a representation of the abandoned Kennecott mill, from the first Kennecott Lodge which burned down in 1983 :
To my recollection this was the first representation I had ever seen of Kennecott. I saw this poster at Mike Hatch's Chitina Saloon for the first time in 1977.
My original railroad model is a representation of Kennecott Copper Company's Copper River & Northwestern Railway, Chitina Local Branch. This railroad branch ran from CRNW mile post 131 (Chitina) to MP 195 (Kennecott) from 1911 until 1938 when the line was abandoned with the final shut-down of the Kennecott copper mines at the head-end of the railroad. What follows is a series of posts I made on a large-scale model railroad forum a year or two ago, answering a member's question about the mines themselves.
On my model is not only an interpretative representation of historic Kennecott, but one of the Mother Lode Coalitions Company Mines--one of the five which fed the Kennecott mill site.
--Ron Simpson
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