White Pass Railway & Yukon Expedition

[laudergayle]

1 hour ago, phillygwm said:

I think you meant @PhillyTravelBug 

 

I did do a similar excursion in September 2016 but just to the White Pass summit, not all the way up to Yukon.  Not sure if they offered it back then; I think I would have preferred the longer trip if it had been.

 

I'm a banker and tend to be, shall we say, frugal.  But I'm going again in August, full YOLO this time 🙂  Chose my sailing so I could helicopter up to the Mendenhall Glacier and go dogsledding.  Last time, I went too late in the season so that excursion wasn't available.  We did the one where the dogs pulled you around on a gravel track, which was not quite the same.

Lol…yes, wrong tribute.  But so happy to have sparked your future delight. I hope you get your dog sledding adventure.  I think the best way to explore Mendenhall is from the top.  OMG…jelly 🥰

[The Traveling Man]

On 12/16/2023 at 12:12 PM, ChiefMateJRK said:

I was referring to the original version (before the loop was built) when the engines ran around the train for the trip down and everybody reversed their seatbacks.  As I stated, they politely announced at the beginning of the run that everybody would be asked to swap seats with their neighbors across the aisle so that all could enjoy the favorable views towards the West.  I've taken this excursion three times, and that was how it always worked.

The loop has been in place since at least August 2015.  That was the date of our first visit to Skagway when we took the steam train.  The steam engine remained coupled to the front of the train and pulled the train around the loop for the return trip to Skagway.  When we rode to the summit behind Diesels in 2017, they did not use the loop.  Instead they uncoupled the engines from the coaches on a siding, ran the locomotives around the train, the pulled the train back down the hill without turning the cars.

[ColdCruise]

On 12/16/2023 at 6:39 PM, laudergayle said:

 

@phillygwm wow..the water color looks tropical.  What month did you travel?

The river is fed by glacier melt so the green color is from the minerals