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Engine 40 arrived in Skagway
after a long journey by truck over the Alaska Highway on June
23, 2000. These first eight photos are of the unloading of the
engine and its tender in Skagway on the twenty-third. The locomotive
and tender arrived on a five-year lease from the Georgetown Loop
RR in Colorado to help celebrate the centennial of the WP&YR.
Here we have the tender already on the Railroad Dock's track
as they prepare to unload "40". Engine 40 and tender
were returned to Colorado after two years of their 5-year lease.
Check out the January 2002 photos
in my Monthly Photo archive
for their return to Colorado. Use your browser's Back
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Here
is "40" on its trailer where it spent the last seven
days traveling through CO, WY, MT, AB, BC, YT and AK. The truck
carrying "40" was 105 feet long, 15'2" high and
weighed 154,000 pounds, the largest load ever moved over the
Alaska Highway, according to WP&YR Superintendent of Operations,
John Bush. |
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short length of track will allow "40" to leave the
trailer and arrive on the Railroad Dock track. |
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Off-photo
Engine 114 pushes "40's" tender up the temporary rail
to join with the locomotive. |
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train 114's engineer (off photo) receives directions from its
conductor as "40" is pulled onto Alaska track for the
first time in the locomotive's 80-year history. |
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Here's
our conductor in the cab of "40". |
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Whew!
Made it! |
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train 114 pulls "40" and its tender out of the shade
of the cruise ship into Alaskan sunlight on Alaskan soil. |
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Engine
40 on its first day in use in Alaska: July 11, 2000. |
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Another
July 11 view letting off some steam. |
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In
its first day of use in Alaska, Engine 40 shuttles coaches from
the Coach Yard to the docks for passengers and will pull the
loaded train back to the Shops where several diesel-electrics
will take over pulling the long train to the 2888' summit of
White Pass. |
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A
few short days after its first use in town, "40" pulls
a few coaches and WP&YR employees to Fraser to test its ability.
Here the Lake Bennett Adventure train is seen waiting on the
Fraser siding awaiting the arrival of "40 Extra". |
