Inspirational!
Although there's no train in this shot, this has to be one of the prettiest railroad landscape shots I've ever taken. From the back platform of our diesel-powered chase train, you are looking at the view from the aptly-named "Inspiration Point" (MP 17), about 3 miles from White Pass Station. In the lower right portion of the scene, you can make out the right-of-way that we covered just a few minutes earlier. In the very center of the photo is the so-called "Saw Tooth" Mountain Range. Lots of famous White Pass photos have been taken here. While I wish we could have stopped and let the Rotary Fleet pull up right behind us for this shot, we had no time to spare. We needed to get onto the siding at White Pass Station, so the plow train could get ahead of us. We were about to do something we had not yet done on this trip. Shortly, we were about to board Combine #211 and ride on the actual Rotary Fleet, which would take us to today's "battle zone."
Inspirational!
Although there's no train in this shot, this has to be one of the prettiest railroad landscape shots I've ever taken. From the back platform of our diesel-powered chase train, you are looking at the view from the aptly-named "Inspiration Point" (MP 17), about 3 miles from White Pass Station. In the lower right portion of the scene, you can make out the right-of-way that we covered just a few minutes earlier. In the very center of the photo is the so-called "Saw Tooth" Mountain Range. Lots of famous White Pass photos have been taken here. While I wish we could have stopped and let the Rotary Fleet pull up right behind us for this shot, we had no time to spare. We needed to get onto the siding at White Pass Station, so the plow train could get ahead of us. We were about to do something we had not yet done on this trip. Shortly, we were about to board Combine #211 and ride on the actual Rotary Fleet, which would take us to today's "battle zone."