Skaguay to Dawson in 1906

The White Pass and Yukon was in its seventh year of operation when it put out this booklet describing its rail route from Skaguay (an older spelling) to White Horse by rail and White Horse to Dawson City by steamboat. This booklet is available from archive.org as either a PDF or the original scans. I cleaned up the scans a little bit and made a new PDF, but at 14.4 megabytes my version is quite a bit bigger than the 2.5-MB PDF on archive.

Click image to download a 14.4-MB PDF of this 16-page booklet.

I’m including it here because it is one of my favorite railroads that also happens to be one of the few passenger lines described on this web site that is still running. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to be planning to run any steam excursions this summer, but it recently purchased some new Diesels to replace some of its older ones that it sold to the Durango & Silverton. Some of the new Diesels were delivered in a bold black, red, and white color scheme that, judging from on-line comments, is a bit controversial, but at least some of them are in the railroad’s traditional yellow and green.


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