An outdoor wooden sign gives a brief history of the remarkable White Pass & Yukon Railway that offered the first train service in Alaska, USA, and was built because of the Gold Rush of 1897-98 to the Klondike in the Yukon Territory of Canada. The sign is displayed in Skagway, Alaska, where prospectors boarded the train to climb from sea level to the 2,915-foot (888-meter) summit of White Pass and shorten their 600-mile (960-kilometer) trek to the goldfields. Nowadays tourists ride in vintage WP&Y passenger coaches to retrace the route to the top of White Pass and enjoy breathtaking scenery.
An outdoor wooden sign gives a brief history of the remarkable White Pass & Yukon Railway that offered the first train service in Alaska, USA, and was built because of the Gold Rush of 1897-98 to the Klondike in the Yukon Territory of Canada. The sign is displayed in Skagway, Alaska, where prospectors boarded the train to climb from sea level to the 2,915-foot (888-meter) summit of White Pass and shorten their 600-mile (960-kilometer) trek to the goldfields. Nowadays tourists ride in vintage WP&Y passenger coaches to retrace the route to the top of White Pass and enjoy breathtaking panoramas of mountains, glaciers, gorges, waterfalls, railroad trestles and tunnels. Also seen is the original Klondike Trail of ‘98 worn into the rocks by thousands of gold seekers who made their way on foot.
Size: 3300px × 2803px
Location: Skagway, Alaska, USA
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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