US Gypsum's Plaster City plant sports the last narrow gauge railroad industrial railroad in the United States. I've known about this operation for sometime, primarily at the lynchpin customer in a... (more)
Two RSD35s (aka DL535Es) are busy putting away train #42, the return leg of the afternoon White Pass Summit Excursion just about 100 yards from Shops. These units look to me like the C420s I knew ... (more)
The power that brought us up to the summit as train #41 pulls away to begin its runaround as we become train #42 and prepare for our run back to Skagway, Alaska, and the US of A. The body of water... (more)
This morning's only Summit train arrives at Railroad Dock to meet passengers from the Volendam. This train will gather a compliment of passengers from the Holland American ship, prior to pulling u... (more)
Summit Excursion train #43 loads on the Ore Dock for the equipment's second trip of the day up the mountain to the White Pass Summit. As far as I could tell from my brief time there, Ore Dock only... (more)
The quarry train returns to Plaster City about an hour later than expected. The water tank on the rear of the train is in the background. This is the last industrial narrow gauge railway in the Un... (more)
Looking north at an overview of the WP&Y shops on a beautiful summer afternoon. Vintage narrow gauge MLW and GE power abound and acitivity is frenetic as four trains arrive to be put away on this... (more)
MLW DL535E White Pass #104 is going to lead a passenger train up the pass. This route use to go as far as Whitehorse in the Yukon, Canada. Now it mainly runs to the top of White Pass and a very ... (more)
Absorbing the reverie of the sweet sounds of hard-working Alcos -- not to mention a lungfull of diesel particulates! -- passengers ride a White Pass excursion into the tunnel at milepost 16 on the... (more)
