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English: This railroad built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. Nowadays White Pass train carries more than 10 million visitors to the Yukon territory Nowadays White Pass train carries more than 10 million visitors to the Yukon territory
A June 2006 report on connecting Alaska to the continental railroad network suggested Carmacks as a hub, with a branch line to Whitehorse and beyond to either Skagway or Haines, Alaska. White Pass and Yukon DL535 locomotive #109, seen in 2013. As of 2021, half of the original fleet of DL535 locomotives reside in Durango, Colorado.
Two overland routes, the 1897 trail and the Brackett Wagon Road, worked their way up White Pass, as did a water-based route along the Skagway River, and the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, completed in 1900. Part of the valley now also carries the Klondike Highway. There are numerous areas along these historic routes (some of which have not been ...
Council City and Solomon River Railroad; Golovin Bay Railroad; Nome Arctic Railway; Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company (White Pass and Yukon Route) Seward Peninsula Railway; Tanana Mines Railway; Tanana Valley Railroad; Valdez, Copper River and Tanana Railroad; Valdez-Yukon Railroad; Wild Goose Railroad; Yakutat and Southern Railway
Completion of the White Pass & Yukon Railroad at Bennett Lake, Yukon river, July 6, 1899. In 1900, the White Pass & Yukon Route completed its railroad line between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon. In 1901, the company entered the steamboat business to complete the service to points on the Yukon River.
The Tanana Valley Railroad was sold to the Alaskan Engineering Commission in 1917 (AEC #50). The A.E.C. became The Alaska Railroad in 1923 (ARR #50). Locomotive scrapped in 1930. 55 (ex-5) Baldwin Locomotive Works: 2-8-0. 12,150 lbf (54.0 kN) May 1885 7597 Originally, Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad #8. Acquired by the WP&YR in 1898 as #5.
The Klondike Highway winds in the state of Alaska for 24 km (15 miles), up through the White Pass in the Coast Mountains where it crosses the Canada–US border to British Columbia (BC) for 56 km (35 miles), then enters Yukon where it reaches the Alaska Highway near Whitehorse and shares a short section with that highway until north of Whitehorse, where it diverges once more to Dawson City.
The White Pass and Yukon Route Class DL-535E (sometimes known as the MLW-Worthington Model Series C-14) is a series of narrow-gauge diesel locomotives that were custom-built by the Montreal Locomotive Works of Montreal, Quebec in Canada between 1969 and 1971 for the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y) in Skagway, Alaska. [2] [3]
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