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The
newly redone Broadway crossing and depot runaround track is tested
in early 1999 as the conductors throws the switch allowing the
four "101s" to move to what will be the front of the
afternoon passenger train. |
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A
train pulled by "101s" approaches Glacier Station bridge.
Hikers at the Laughton Glacier trailhead can see several trains
pass by before or after taking to the trail. The WP&YR offers
hikers "flagstop tickets" so they can be dropped off
and picked up for the day's hike. |
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A
top-view of a "101". It's maybe a photograph that would
only interest the modeling train buff. |
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Engine
107 (with 104 not seen behind it) prepares to leave the Broadway
Dock with a load of cruise ship passengers. This and the following
seven photos are of the same train as it leaves Skagway, runs
to the White Pass, and returns about three hours later. |
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The
view from inside the cab of "107". |
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Coming
out of Rocky Point, the train crew and passengers get their first
good view of the Skagway River below left and Klondike Highway
further to the left. Brackett's Toll Road from 1897-98 will soon
come into view, a historic sight that can be seen from the highway
or rails but viewed better from the train. |
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In
late May and early June of the particularly cool year 2000, this
is what greets the train crew and passengers as they approach
the summit of White Pass. The view here is from the perspective
of a "fireman" on a "101". |
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A
typical meeting of the three morning or afternoon Summit trains
at White Pass summit. The view is from the locomotive of the
third Summit train looking at the first Summit train (left) starting
its return to Skagway and the second Summit train (ahead right)
backing on the mail line awaiting the switching of the third
train's power to the opposite end of the train. With this single
siding, this allows the three trains to come down in the same
1-2-3 order as they went up to the Pass. |
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A
view a few seconds after the above photo. The first long train,
pulled by four "101s", starts its descent. |
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And
now we're a few minutes after the above two photos, our locomotives
are now ready to pull us down to Skagway from the White Pass
summit with a great view of the Sawtooth Range in the distance. |
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A
short three hours later, we're back in Skagway on a beautiful
sunny day, returning the passengers to their ship for a meal
or to rove through this historic gold rush town. |
