Approaching White Pass Summit. Although the journey on the White Pass & Yukon Route for most cruise ship passengers ends at White Pass Station (MP 20.4), near the US/Canada Border, the actu... (more)

Up close with White Pass Rotary #1. One of the unique memories that I have of the 2011 White Pass Rotary Run was the ability of the photographers to get relatively close to the machine....a... (more)

Rocking pristine British Columbia. On the 3rd day of the 2011 White Pass Rotary Run, the White Pass Rotary Fleet presses north out of Canadian Shed, toward White Pass Summit, Fraser and poi... (more)

White Pass Station: The Rotary Fleet takes the lead. On the 3rd day of the 2011 White Pass Rotary Run, most of the really heavy plowing around White Pass Station and Canadian Shed had been ... (more)

The power behind the plow. White Pass Rotary #1 is indeed a mighty machine, but she goes nowhere without at least a couple of locomotives to push her along. Leading the power on the 2011 ... (more)

Ready for battle! With the fuel and water tanks fully topped and all crew positions fully manned, the White Pass Rotary Fleet sits at Glacier Siding (MP 14.1) awaiting the order to move fro... (more)

Servicing Stop - Glacier Siding. With roughly 6 miles to go on the journey from Skagway to White Pass, the WPY Rotary Fleet comes to the attention of a servicing crew that has been pre-posi... (more)

Steamscape: American Flat Tunnel (Tunnel #2). V&T Locomotive #29 charges out of the west portal of Tunnel #2, near Silver City, NV, hauling freight loads for customers in Virginia City, abo... (more)

Steamscape: Collapsed Tunnel #3. On a clear, February day, V&T Consolidation #29 takes her short freight up the hill toward Virginia City, passing the remains of Tunnel #3, once known as "H... (more)

Steamscape: Crown Point. A V&T freight comes off the Crown Point Fill and is just now passing the ore loading facilities at about MP 50.0. This is one of the flatter stretches of the recon... (more)

Tunnel #4: The "Yellow Jacket" Tunnel. The Engineer on V&T Locomotive #29 has his engine nicely hooked up as he tugs a freight consist out of the East Portal of Tunnel #4 and up t... (more)

Crossing Crown Point Fill. The reconstructed V&T Virginia City Line pretty much follows the original, historic right-of-way, with a couple of notable exceptions. The first is at the south... (more)

Lotsa curves. In the pretty morning sun, V&T Locomotive #29 takes a short freight up the hill from Carson City to Virginia City, by about the most circuitous route you could imagine. Nickn... (more)

Comstock Dawn - Golden light at Gold Hill. Just minutes after sunrise, V&T Locomotive #29 and her short freight leave the wide-open spaces of American Flat behind and enter the hillside min... (more)

Comstock Dawn - Twilight at Overman Pit. A Virginia & Truckee Freight makes its way across the high fill at the eastern edge of the Overman Pit Mine (MP 49.4), at Civil Twilight on a cold F... (more)