Re: remembering the White Pass

No, I did not, I don't think it was being offered when I was up there.
I was up there for two mid-week nights.
Mid-seventies was a different time up there. While there were cruise boats calling at Skagway, it was nothing like the number and size of ships now calling. The ore traffic was still coming down to the ore dock. A road was being built out of Skagway to White Pass and onto the Yukon Territory that would take another two or three years to complete. The WP&YR thought they would still have freight business after the road was completed with the continuing ore traffic and loads that were too big or heavy for the Alaskan Highway.
When we stopped at the yard before proceeding to the passenger station, I stepped out onto the platform of the parlor car. Out of the combine car stepped a man who was addressed by one of the railroad men on the ground; where had he been was the question. He replied he had taken the family to see the dentist in Whitehorse. That was a three-day trip to see the dentist!
Oh, how things have changed.
Brian Norden