| May 23, 2020 01:27AM |
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.
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.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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