In the home stretch at Log Cabin
After plowing all day, the White Pass Rotary Fleet slogs through the last hundred yards of snow-covered tracks, before a scheduled servicing stop at Log Cabin, BC, and the Klondike Highway Crossing near MP 32. Just behind the plow train, you can see the green and yellow livery on the 90-Class locomotives of our chase train, looking like a submarine stalking a target.
When the plow train came to a halt just a minute or so later, I was incredibly surprised to see them stop it literally right in the crossing, blocking the only major highway between Skagway, AK and Whitehorse, YT. Interestingly, it spent about 20 minutes parked right there....and no cars appeared the entire time. That gives you just a little idea how busy things are in this part of the world in April.
In the home stretch at Log Cabin
After plowing all day, the White Pass Rotary Fleet slogs through the last hundred yards of snow-covered tracks, before a scheduled servicing stop at Log Cabin, BC, and the Klondike Highway Crossing near MP 32. Just behind the plow train, you can see the green and yellow livery on the 90-Class locomotives of our chase train, looking like a submarine stalking a target.
When the plow train came to a halt just a minute or so later, I was incredibly surprised to see them stop it literally right in the crossing, blocking the only major highway between Skagway, AK and Whitehorse, YT. Interestingly, it spent about 20 minutes parked right there....and no cars appeared the entire time. That gives you just a little idea how busy things are in this part of the world in April.