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White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad Building is now a museum and home of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park White Pass & Yukon Route 1907 Ad. As the gold rush wound down, serious professional mining was taking its place; not so much for gold as for other metals such as copper, silver and lead. The closest port was Skagway, and the ...
This is a route-map template for the White Pass and Yukon Route, a railway in the United States and Canada.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
White Pass trail in 1899 White Pass summit seen from train, 2002. The White Pass trail was one of the two main passes used by prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush.The White Pass was an easier route to Lake Bennett than the Chilkoot Trail a few kilometers to the west, but it harbored a criminal element that preyed on the cheechakos (newcomers to the Klondike).
Alaska is home to two surviving narrow gauge railroads. The last surviving commercial common carrier narrow-gauge railroad in the United States was the White Pass and Yukon Route connecting Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. It ended common carrier service in 1982, but has since been partially reopened as a tourist railway.
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 ...
The White Pass and Yukon Route, completed in 1900, included train stations at White Pass, Fraser and Bennett. [3] [4] When the White Pass train station, which housed the customs office, burned to the ground in 1950, customs moved to temporary accommodation before closing the following year. [2]
In 1993, Loco #80 (by then SV RR #20) received the former tender of Sumpter Valley Railway Loco #19. [46] Original White Pass #80 tender (ex-SV #18) was assigned to Rotary #1 from 1949 to 1950. Reassigned to Loco #190, when that loco was sold to the Tweetsie R.R. in 1960.
White Pass & Yukon Route 73 is an operating narrow-gauge 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive. It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the White Pass and Yukon Route in May 1947. [ 3 ] After retirement on June 30, 1964, the locomotive was moved to Bennett , British Columbia , in 1968 for static display.