[Leica] More Skagway Rail photos

[ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)]

great fun

ric


On May 28, 2012, at 11:58 AM, H&ECummer wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> Thanks for your comments on previous postings both on and off the list.
> Here is more of the Yukon and White Pass story.
>> From the dock at Skagway, elevation 0, the line
> rises 2,865 feet in 20.4 miles to the White Pass Summit.
> 
> Here is Esther's picture of the entrance to Tunnel Mountain
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/WPYTrain/ETunelshedw.jpg.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/7fm79su
> 
> And here is the exit from the other side of the tunnel;
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/WPYTrain/Tunnelswishw.jpg.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/7hcc3ob
> 
> I talked to the conductor before getting on the train and he gave me the 
> tip to a) walk to the car next to the locomotive so that on the ride up 
> you have the best view of the tail back.
> Then when the loco shifts to the other end of the train you are in the 
> last car on the way day. He also said that since the car is farther away 
> fewer people will walk to it. He was right - there were fewer than 10 
> people in the front car.
> 
> Here's the conductor supervising the changeover at the top of the pass;
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/WPYTrain/Cars_amp_Conductorw.jpg.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/7apyrnp
> 
> Here is the loco moving from our front to the new front of the train:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/WPYTrain/LocoTurnw.jpg.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/89o3mum
> 
> The weather at the top was much colder and mistier than on the other side 
> of the tunnel:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/WPYTrain/CarsFogw.jpg.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/7s7anzp
> 
> And here we are thundering along between walls of snow:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/WPYTrain/snopixw.jpg.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/7eqmcu7
> 
> Now looking out the platform from the rear car the tracks took on a 
> surreal form:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/WPYTrain/snocurvew.jpg.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/7zy7buc
> 
> Another view of the time. space and infinity:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/WPYTrain/StrTrcksnowBWw.jpg.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/7aabort
> 
> That's all for this time. There will be a few more people pictures in the 
> next posting.
> 
> Please look large.
> C&C most welcome, as always.
> Howard
> 
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