Re: Details from TRAINS magazine on 470's Series

> If the Coloradoans were so reluctant to let them
> go, why didn't they want them back?


Probably because they didn't want to buy them back when they gave them to War Efforts.
>
> They weren't amateurs. Many of the WP&Y employees
> were still working there, and the Army railroaders
> were mostly professional railroaders.

You are right this is just what the article stated. You might have to contact R.H.Kindig to get the answer to that problem.
>
> No records or photos have turned up about bursting
> or going into a river.

Now this is 1961, many of the photo's that have surfaced that the public has seen have come about in the last 50 years.
>
> There is no "Whitehorse River." The river at
> Whitehorse is the Yukon. And there are no tracks
> on cliffs over the Yukon river.

You got a good claim on that one. Duno either.
>
> There are many photos and records of them in use
> after the 42/43 winter.
>
> August 4, 1943 was the railroad's busiest day (23
> Southbound, 14 Northbound trains). All K28's
> except 255 were in use between Whitehorse and
> Skagway that day.
>
> Bruce


Thanks Bruce for information that Mr. Kindig didn't have when he wrote this article for TRAINS Magazine September 1961.


Still a Student,


Dave