Re: White Pass - Skagway River
| September 18, 2019 05:22PM |
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A lot of stuff was sent to Seattle via ship after the war and almost all of it was scrapped at the NP yard at Auburn WA around 1946 or so, including ET&WNC 10 and 14 along with a lot of CO line stuff from the photos I've seen.
These were apparently dumped in the river sometime after that. I wonder if the military paid for or did the move of those Army locomotives that got scrapped after the war?
It might explain why nothing went to the lower 48 after that...
KevinM Wrote:
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I guess it was far cheaper to dispose of run-out
> locomotives by dumping them in the river than by
> shipping them back down to the lower 48 for
> conventional scrapping. If you walk the shore of
> the Skagway river, there are plenty of other
> locomotives and other pieces of rolling stock
> protruding out of the sand.
>
> /Kevin Madore
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
These were apparently dumped in the river sometime after that. I wonder if the military paid for or did the move of those Army locomotives that got scrapped after the war?
It might explain why nothing went to the lower 48 after that...
KevinM Wrote:
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>
I guess it was far cheaper to dispose of run-out
> locomotives by dumping them in the river than by
> shipping them back down to the lower 48 for
> conventional scrapping. If you walk the shore of
> the Skagway river, there are plenty of other
> locomotives and other pieces of rolling stock
> protruding out of the sand.
>
> /Kevin Madore
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
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