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The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) (reporting mark WPY) is a Canadian and U.S. Class III 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon.
According to a Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad spokesperson, the derailment occurred at 8:53 p.m. near Peninsula in Summit County. Three cars came off the tracks but remained upright, a press ...
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.
In 1957, North Carolina real-estate developer Grover Robbins opened a theme park between Boone and Blowing Rock called Tweetsie Railroad with ex-East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad 4-6-0 #12. The park was an instant success. In 1961, he acquired two USATC S118 Class 2-8-2s from the White Pass.
Authorities are on the scene of a train derailment in southeastern Michigan, news outlets report. The train, operated by Norfolk Southern Railway, came off the tracks near Van Buren Township the ...
Authorities say three trains were involved in a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday morning that caused no reported injuries or evacuations but left some railroad cars ...
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.
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