Alone, unloved and unwanted. Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said that "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." That pretty well describes what's happening with this old gal. You are lo... (more)

Steaming Back down the Whitepass to Skagway.

White Pass & Yukon Train 2, consisting of containers, piggyback private vehicles and no-two-alike passenger cars, leaves Whitehorse, Yukon en route Skagway, Alaska on Sept. 2, 1978. Up ahead ar... (more)

Southbound WP&Y Train 2 with three specially-built GE units (Nos. 98, 97, 92) is now in Alaska and USA territory and exits the only tunnel on the 110-mile line twenty-one miles after leaving the 2... (more)

The power behind the plow. The White Pass & Yukon Rotary Fleet breaks out of Canadian Shed and heads north toward Fraser, British Columbia under a wintry sky. In this going-away view of t... (more)

Mountain Muscle. The White Pass & Yukon's 1908 Baldwin 2-8-0 #69 switches shop leads at the south end of the White Pass Yard, as she prepares to couple up with Mikado #73 and Rotary #1 for... (more)

Steamin' up the Rotary Fleet. White Pass Master Mechanic Wayland Ferreira greases and oils the running gear on Locomotive 69 as the cab crews bring the rotary and her two pusher engines up... (more)

A carbon footprint stands out on an otherwise pristine landscape as the White Pass Rotary Fleet cruises through 3 ft deep snow toward Fraser, British Columbia, just a couple of miles ahead.... (more)

White Pass Work Train. You've likely seen photos of the all-steam, White Pass Rotary Fleet at work clearing the line, but you likely haven't seen all of the logistical support that train ne... (more)

Breakout! After struggling mightily with 15-20 ft. snow drifts for a day and half, WPY Rotary #1 and her train finally break out of White Pass, just north of Canadian Shed, near MP 21.5, wi... (more)

Clearing the platform at Bennett. The White Pass Rotary Fleet begins to attack the winter's accumulation of snow from the tracks at the station platform in Bennett, British Columbia. Loca... (more)

A long passenger train hauled by the WPY #91 and 99 is arriving at the Glacier siding on its way home to Skagway. Only a few minutes before the train arrived, a black bear quietly crossed the trac... (more)

WPY #69 performs a volcanic early morning departure from the Skagway shops with a passenger train to Fraser.