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The railway was upgraded with seven new 1,200 hp (890 kW) locomotives from ALCO, new freight cars, ore buckets, a straddle carrier at Whitehorse to transfer from the railway's new fleet of trucks, a new ore dock at Skagway, and assorted work on the rail line to improve alignment. In the fall of 1969, a new tunnel and bridge that bypassed Dead ...
Northern Pacific Railroad (now used by BNSF Railway, inactive), Interstate 90. Divides Pacific and Atlantic Ocean drainages. AR: Pipestone Pass: 6,453 ft (1,967 m) Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (abandoned), Montana Highway 2. Divides Pacific and Atlantic Ocean drainages.
Rail car of the White Pass and Yukon Route in Skagway, Alaska Skagway, on the Taiya Inlet , was an important saltwater port during the Klondike Gold Rush . The White Pass and Yukon Route narrow gauge railroad , part of the area's mining past, now in operation purely for the tourist trade and running throughout the summer months, has its ...
The Skagway–Fraser Border Crossing connects the communities of Skagway, Alaska and Carcross, Yukon on the Canada–United States border. Alaska Highway 98 on the American side joins Yukon Highway 2 on the Canadian side. The border is near the summit of White Pass on the Klondike Highway, where the elevation is 3,292 feet (1,003 m).
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).
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.
Acquired by the WP&YR in 1898. Sold to the Tanana Mines Railway in 1905 (TM #100). The TM Railway became the Tanana Valley Railroad in 1907 (TV #200). The TV RR was sold to the Alaskan Engineering Commission in 1917 (AEC #200). The A.E.C. became The Alaska Railroad in 1923 (ARR #200). [88] The Alaska Railroad's narrow-gauge branch was abandoned ...
conventional, plus ore trucks up to 160,000 pounds from Yukon mines to Skagway Location The Captain William Moore Bridge is an historic 300-foot (91 m) asymmetric single-pylon cable-stayed bridge on the Klondike Highway that spans the Moore Creek Gorge in the borough of Skagway , Alaska , United States, about 17 miles (27 km) north of the city ...