After 100 years, the "railway built of gold" still carves a path through one of the most treacherous mountain passes imaginable. With 125 spectacular historic photographs along with fascinating anecdotes and personal accounts, this book tells the exciting story of the world's northernmost narrow-gauge railway. 125 photos.
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Ride the "Railway Built of Gold" and step back in time to the days of the Klondike Gold Rush. Linking Skagway, Alaska with Whitehorse, Yukon this tiny railway carves and unbelievable path through a rugged coastal pass. The epic construction and operation of the White Pas and Yukon Route Railway is legendary. With more than 125 spectacular historic photographs, fascinating anecdotes and personal accounts, this book is an essential keepsake. Come aboard and celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush and the construction of the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Stock archive photos, minimal text,
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This review is from: The White Pass and Yukon Route Railway (Paperback)
A disappointing collection of photographs, most of them previously published. The text is limited to one page "chapter" introductions, with no new information and what is there is often misleading. Subtitled "100th Aniversary Collection", it is an obvious attempt to cash in on the tourist trade. Most captions are so brief as to be useless. The same photo is printed twice, once identified as at Bennett, the other time as at White Pass Summit. A group of passengers photographed on the rear platform of a passenger car is captioned as taken on a "caboose". Several photos of passengers riding flat cars are captioned as riding "flatbeds". The switchback at Dead Horse Gulch is identified as "near the summit" while the later cantilever bridge on adjacent pages is never explained as the switchback replacement. The only strengths of this book are the quotes from contemporary newspapers and the coated paper which improves some, but! not all, of the previously published photos. If you are looking for a good history or new information on the White Pass, look elsewhere.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic Pictorial History,
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Great pictures with a historical outline. For more thorough history look elsewhere.
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