Big Train Tours - Klondike Tourists: Former White Pass & Yukon Coaches
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- Welcome to another "Big Train Tour" at the Colorado Railroad Museum! This week, we’ll be taking a look at two identical all-steel coaches, built in 1969 and 1976 respectively for Alaska’s White Pass & Yukon narrow gauge railroad. Intended to supplement this remote railroad’s passenger fleet at a time when Alaska cruises were growing more popular, both cars ultimately saw relatively short service lives, became surplus to the railroad’s needs, and eventually were sold. Today these utilitarian coaches are enjoying a new career, carrying passengers aboard trains at the Museum’s Golden campus throughout the year, and making nightly, magical journeys to the North Pole during the holiday season!
Starting in the late 1960s, our subject “big trains” helped usher in a wave of improvements to Alaska’s White Pass & Yukon railroad. When the White Pass abruptly ceased operations in the early 1980s, things slumbered for a half-dozen years. But the increasing popularity of Alaska cruises led to a reopening in the late 1980s, and this little but mighty railroad returned to a new life. The line’s new existence was now entirely focused on transporting tourists on once-in-a-lifetime journeys, with one of North America’s most spectacular narrow gauge railroads as the conveyance.
Join Executive Director, Paul Hammond as we explore the surprisingly rich history of these Utilitarian Passenger Cars!
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Scripting & narration by Paul Hammond. Music by @Hyce777! Filming & editing by @akaBoG! Outro voiceover by Dave Schaaf.
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Love the fact that CRRM is using Mark's music. ^_^
Mr. Hammond, all of the Big Train Tours videos are just awesome. I find myself watching them every now and then because I love how you tell the stories of locomotives, railcars and railroads.
I'll make sure Paul gets the feedback - he puts in a LOT of work to make these episodes happen!
Gratitude 🤲 Your Way.
thanks for watching!
There are lots of White Pass and Yukon locomotives and rolling stock scattered in many different homes. The Durango and Silverton, for example, aquired a couple of Montreal locomotive works diesel locomotives, Dollywood in Tennessee, and the Tweetsie Railroad in North Carolina own some 2-8-2 steam locomotives, and some White Pass rolling stock have found homes on railroads in Iowa, Oregon and even Colorado
i drove past those cars for a few years while that sat in Washington thay sat a mile from my house
same place the 73 went when she first came down south for her rebuild
0:39 276 Lake Big Salmon 18:10 280 Lake Dease 18:17 278 Lake Fairweather 19:31 286 Lake Kusawa 20:01 221 Lake Marsh 20:11 50+ new cars 20:34 Colorado cars: 4 at Georgetown Loop, 21:18 CRM 280, 286 22:13 2018 repainted, dropped leading "2" from official number; unclear why.
26:38 Why dose it smel like somthing familier?
I try to slip it in whenever I can......
@@akaBoG love the fact that you use @Hyce777 music
cool show
thanks Mat!
@@akaBoG your welcome Matt
wish I could get one of their diesels
There are plenty of 90’s for sale.
@@JaiahHazelnutBrown yeah?
@@microbusss yes. Call White Pass.
@@JaiahHazelnutBrown pix?
@@microbusss I don’t have any but it’s public knowledge they’re available. 92/93/94/95/96/97/99.
What happened to the 8 K-28 locomotives after the war?
They were all scrapped.