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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.
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.
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The White Pass route was slightly longer but less rigorous and steep, whereas the Chilkoot was shorter and more difficult. Skagway, because of its deepwater harbor, served as the principal port for both routes (nearby Dyea, the beginning of the Chilkoot Trail, was built on the extensive, shallow Taiya River delta).
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The Skagway Historic District and White Pass is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing a significant portion of the area within the United States associated with the Klondike Gold Rush. It includes the historic portion of Skagway, Alaska , including the entire road grid of the 1897 town, as well as the entire valley on the United ...
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.