Some of the road's ALCO diesels were sold to a railroad in Colombia, and three (out of four, and one of these was wrecked) of the newer ALCO diesels built by and in storage with ALCO's Canadian licensee MLW (Montreal Locomotive Works) were sold to US Gypsum in Plaster City, California. The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) (reporting mark WPY) is a Canadian and U.S. Class III 3ft (914mm) narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. a brief spike in traffic during the building of the Alaska Highway and Old wooden trestle, White Pass and Yukon Route. 1 photographic print. By June, 1914, the WP&YR had 11 locomotives, 15 passenger cars and 233 freight cars operating on 110 miles (180km) of trackage; generating $68,368 in passenger revenue and $257,981 in freight revenue; still a profitable operation as operating expenses were only $100,347. In July 2018, the railway was purchased by Carnival Corporation & plc. USATC narrow-gauge locomotives were never destined for Iran. The White Pass was and is perfectly positioned to sell a railroad ride through the mountains to cruise ship tourists; they do not even have to walk far from their ships. Named after "Pavy, London", telegraph address of Charles Colin MacRae. A popular pastime for many is studying and/or exploring abandoned rights-of-way. Bottom section of verso has digitized image rotated for correct online viewing. it is the nations busiest tourist railroad, seeing over 400,000 riders As of 2005[update], however, one engine still had the blue color scheme. railroad has grown so much over the last twenty years that in 2007 it The Faro lead-zinc mine opened in 1969. google_color_link = "0000FF"; WP&YR acquired some rolling stock from Canadian National's Newfoundland operations, which shut down in November,1988; the acquisition included 8 side-pivot, drop-side air dump cars for large rocks, and 8 longitudinal hoppers for ballast, still painted in CN orange. during World War I and II. The narrow-gauge White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, located in Alaska, 70 caught a guardrail with its snowplow and rolled over on its side. The closest port was Skagway, and the only route there was via the White Pass & Yukon Route's river boats and railroad. Aside from the tremendous scenery afforded during trips, another draw 1 is that they were converted from 1,000mm (3ft3+38in) metre gauge gauge to 3ft (914mm) gauge by the WP&YR shops in Skagway, Alaska. 1 photographic print. The Due to the derailment, the line was temporarily suspended,[48][49] but service resumed. On the evening of July 8, 1898, Soapy Smith was killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf with guards at one of the vigilante's meetings. For the roster of White Pass winter stages, see Overland Trail (Yukon). While most other narrow-gauge systems in North America were closing around this time, the WP&YR remained open. The first eleven were diverted to the WP&YR as 3ft (914mm) gauge, the next 15 went to India as meter gauge, another 20 went to Queensland Rail as 3ft6in (1,067mm) gauge, and the remaining 14 were meter gauge for India where the order was destined before the Alaskan and Australian diversions.[51][52][53]. The WP&YR owned an early container ship (Clifford J. Rogers, built in 1955), and in 1956 introduced containers, although these were far smaller than the truck-sized containers than came into use in the United States in 1956 and could not readily be handed off to other railroads or ship lines. The information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers. No modification was needed. Adventure Travel,