Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Superior Promotions,
• VHS Release Date: November 28, 2001
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• ASIN: B00000JL2L
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #621,243 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The White Pass and Yukon Railroad made its inaugural run between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon July 29, 1900. Close to a century later it still thunders through the spectacular White Pass--alongside the Trail of '98--the route to the Klondike Goldfields. For more than eighty years the railroad provided year-round service on its 110 mile route. It survived the boom and bust of the mining economy, two world wars and some forty feet of snow Alaskan winters could dump on White Pass summit. The constant roar of the steam powered rotary snowplow fleet was a familiar sound throughout the long winters. Today a summer excursion service carries record numbers of passengers along the pass. Now, through a wealth of archive film and broadcast video, we relive the highlights of this narrow-gauge survivor--a recent high speed winter run on the gleaming Mikado Class Steam Locomotive. Enjoy the power and sight of the Rotary Fleet working at 40 below zero, travel in comfort on the original General Electric Class 90 diesels and marvel at the massive trains pulled by the Alcos.