Just wanted to add something here about something that was saidin one of the posts, and of course I can't find it now...It was mentioned that you could not photograph railroads during the war...
In a 1943 National Geographic I found at my grandmothers house, there was an article about the building of the ALCAN Hiway. THe WP&Y figured prominantly in the story and there is even a picture of a train leaving Skagway with a load of trucks and trailers bound for the summit. Sure, it may have had to pass a censor, but there it is.
The idea was to build this road from three directions, each end and the middle. Whitehorse being the middle. The conditions that the men endoured would put most of us to shame today. Indeed, if you have read anything about the construction of the railroad, they continued work in the dead of winter....
Just a little more info...