Labrador?

Here's a link to a report on a truck camper tour of Labrador in 2005, just posted in TC Section. http://forums.woodalls.com/Index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/27039176/gotomsg/27039835/p/1.cfm#27039835

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Ferry over today or tomorrow. I am looking forward to this...however slow! Walking, fauna watching...BUGS not so much at all!

Thanks everyone.
Donna
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Generating Stations in Quebec on QC 389 are every bit as interesting as Churchill Falls.

There are parts of any tour where taking pics is not allowed.

This is Manic V on approach:



There is lots to do if you look and ask.

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Donna, please don't take what I said as anything but a heads-up, namely a "highway" on a map is not necessarily what us in the more civilized parts of the country as a highway.

For the western / central section ( ~320 miles) from Happy Valley / Goose Bay west to the Quebec border will likely take you 12 hourss, and other than a couple of small villages there's nothing along the way.

If you start at Blanc Sablon, if you decide to turn around when you get to the older sections, it's a looooong way back.

Theres no doubt it IS beautiful scenery, bo your research first.

Hubby and I have decided to go this road but if we get on it and early on see that it really isn't for us (slow going and all) we are open to pulling the plug and going back through Newfoundland to NY hudson valley. I sure hope we don't have to do that but it is an option...not expecting to have to though. Slow should work fine. I've researched what they are working on now so I know the areas and how many kilometers...plus the mining ops.

Thanks!
Donna

We spent 9 weeks in Newfoundland in 2007. Am currently in Alaska. The Labrador Highway is on our agenda for next year.

Minor detail.

I was living in Newfoundland, western Newfoundland during the construction phase. Radio coverage for coastal Labrador was local radio coverage for me.

I heard of the adjustments that had to be made on the coastal part of the TLH right after those parts were done and I traveled part of the coastal road before the push to the completion of the TLH.

What is more the organization I worked for has points of operation throughout the province, people whom I was in regular contact with. The construction of the modern TLH was a part of my regular life in them days. No I can't site chapter and verse of the upgrading of the western section of the TLH, but it was done. When I passed through on my 2006 trip those who live there told me of how it had been improved.

& I'm quite sure that trying to put down and make poor of the work that was done is in error.

Like I said, minor detail, my daily life during that construction.

The point for people traveling is that the road is well constructed and may be slow as all gravel roads are, but if it can take heavy mining equipment an rv is small potatoes.

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Little Kopit wrote:


This road has very different financing than the tote road of many years before. It is a road built for modern traffic and for heavy equipment

A) I don't think adequate checking or reading was done before that post was made. The Newfoundland and Labrador government site could have been searched. They certainly posted enough about the construction of the modern Trans Labrador Highway when it was being built.

B) Read the thread well before posting!!!! IF my earlier post had been read before posting, the fact that the Trans Labrador Highway was opened in 2009, should have been seen and comprehended.

How the heck could someone drive that modern Trans Labrador Highway and post a picture of it, not talk to locals to hear about the modern construction, not say "what a difference in 10 years.................. beyond belief.

Don't expect high speeds, take care, and talk to locals all.

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Except you seem to have skipped over the part that the last phase of the TLH was opened in 2009.

The first section of 549 km (341 miles) between the Quebec / Labrador border and Happy Valley / Goose Bay is largely the same, they did spend $60 million on it back in 1999 after the mining industry pushed them to. But that's barely $100 / meter. By comparison, the already good built-up road I live on was "resurfaced" last year, some new culverts, shoulder rehabilitation, etc., etc., it cost more than $1,000 / meter to do it.

Little Kopit wrote:

There's the tote road to the right: ;)

It must have been tough getting the heavy trucks to float on that tote road........... It's a river.

JaxDad wrote:

Little Kopit wrote:
Re. type of gravel and your term "normal gravel", my question "normal" for where. Did you expect the road builders to ship in what is normal rock crusher created gravel from where you live?

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They never "ship in" gravel on any job unless it's absolutely necessary, it's too expensive.

"Normal" is when they bring in a crusher and produce gravel from the oversize material after they've produced the 'bank run' stuff which is normally used for base only.

However, since this road was designed and built as a 'tote road' for construction transport vehicles they didn't bother.

Besides, this road was a freebie, a condition of the deal between Quebec Hydro and NL & Labrador, so they built it as absolutely cheaply as they could. That's why it's not even a full 2 lanes wide standard road.

BTW, I know the Trans-Lab a little better than the average Canadian, between '93 & '99 I drove that route no less than 6 times a year, in the early years of the nickel play, it was more like once a month, many of those times it was during the winter. I've spent a lot of time chatting with the folks who built, maintain and drive that road.

There's the tote road to the right:




This road has very different financing than the tote road of many years before. It is a road built for modern traffic and for heavy equipment

A) I don't think adequate checking or reading was done before that post was made. The Newfoundland and Labrador government site could have been searched. They certainly posted enough about the construction of the modern Trans Labrador Highway when it was being built.

B) Read the thread well before posting!!!! IF my earlier post had been read before posting, the fact that the Trans Labrador Highway was opened in 2009, should have been seen and comprehended.

How the heck could someone drive that modern Trans Labrador Highway and post a picture of it, not talk to locals to hear about the modern construction, not say "what a difference in 10 years.................. beyond belief.

Don't expect high speeds, take care, and talk to locals all.

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