Timothy - Very nice stuff, thanks for posting it. If you've got more from the trip over to Whitehorse, by all means please keep it coming. The White Pass in the 1960s-1970s is truly an unappreciated treasure, and one we don't see nearly enough around here.
In the spirit of "first trips to the White Pass", I figured I'd dig up some old photos I scanned years ago from my first visit.
I wish I could have seen it back in the day, making its living as an ore hauler, though in all fairness I would have been 2 at the time you were there. My first encounter with the WPYR was 31 years ago in 1989, once they'd reopened as a tourist hauler. Dad had gotten laid off a few months before, so when I got out of school for the summer we loaded up the van and headed north for a couple months. I repeated much of it in 2015 when I took three months off work, but unfortunately dad's health was at the point he couldn't come along.
99 & 100 with a train at Fraser, which was as far as they were operating in that first full season.
Our train, taken on a very dark and rainy day with probably something around ISO 1600 color print film on a cheap camera. If only I could send 12 year old me a better camera and some slide film.
Yours truly, looking like a foamer in downtown Skagway. Love the engineer's face, though.
By modern standards, that cruise ship at the ore dock is positively tiny. In 2015, I was in town with two ships, and the best time was after all the cruisers got called back to their ships around 6:30-7. It allowed me to shoot all the trains coming back in, and then I could head out to find some dinner and drinks when it was just the locals and those of us who drove in.