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More coming when I get time to scan them. Curiously once I got on the train not so many photos, sensory overload I guess. There will be some interesting surprises, though. It was not an uneventful run to Whitehorse. And I got commentary along the way from a brakeman who happily was from the town in Oregon in which I was born.
Thanks for posting yours, I really love before and after, especially when things improve! I finally found out later that the original track ran down the main street so the trains loaded in front of the depot and not behind. Couldn't figure that out when I was there. And I am jealous; you got to see steam run! I never imagined that was ever going to be possible back then, in fact I was very much afraid the railroad would soon be gone. Like I said, think Durango in the '60's.
Like you I wish I could go back and take more pictures with better equipment. It was truly different back then when you didn't know what you had until you got it back from the developer and you weren't sure just when you'd have enough to pay the cost and buy the next batch of film. I literally did not see my pictures of the whole trip until several weeks after I got home. The other thing at which I am amazed is how much Jack and I did in Skagway. We were only there a day! There are a lot of pictures I won't post as they aren't railroad related and there was a lot I didn't even photograph. A trip out to the slide cemetery in Dyea, for instance, with an Eulachon (Alaskan "hooligan") run with the sea gulls and the bald eagles going at it. And an encounter on the hike with a bear cub at three feet away and no sign of mama. Scariest bear I've ever seen when I consider it.....
Timothy
