Rolling into Bennett
On a gloomy, rainy afternoon in September, the White Pass & Yukon Route's Mikado #73 rolls onto the station platform at Bennett, BC for a station stop and a break for her passengers on the long ride from Carcross, YT to Skagway, AK. The station platform looks deserted today and that's pretty much the way it always looks. Located at Milepost 40.6, Bennett was an important waypoint on the WP&YR in the early, gold-rush years and a little town actually sprang up here. But by the time the railroad reached Caribou Crossing (known as Carcross, YT today), things began to die here. Today, the only vestige of the old town is the steeple of an abandoned church, and Bennett is only reachable by the railroad or hiking the Chilkoot Trail.
The large station building pictured here may look excessive for a waystation in the middle of nowhere. This structure was a large dining hall, which the railroad initially maintained for Section Crews, Train Crews and Passengers. The so-called "Eating House" has even been used in the tourist era in a similar fashion to the dining hall maintained by the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in Colorado, but in recent years, the practice has been discontinued. Trains headed to and from Carcross still stop here, but just to give the passengers a chance to use the facilities and stretch their legs.
This image was captured during a September 2025 photo shoot on the White Pass & Yukon Route, which featured the last remaining, operable steam locomotive on the line, that being the Baldwin #73, pictured here.
Rolling into Bennett
On a gloomy, rainy afternoon in September, the White Pass & Yukon Route's Mikado #73 rolls onto the station platform at Bennett, BC for a station stop and a break for her passengers on the long ride from Carcross, YT to Skagway, AK. The station platform looks deserted today and that's pretty much the way it always looks. Located at Milepost 40.6, Bennett was an important waypoint on the WP&YR in the early, gold-rush years and a little town actually sprang up here. But by the time the railroad reached Caribou Crossing (known as Carcross, YT today), things began to die here. Today, the only vestige of the old town is the steeple of an abandoned church, and Bennett is only reachable by the railroad or hiking the Chilkoot Trail.
The large station building pictured here may look excessive for a waystation in the middle of nowhere. This structure was a large dining hall, which the railroad initially maintained for Section Crews, Train Crews and Passengers. The so-called "Eating House" has even been used in the tourist era in a similar fashion to the dining hall maintained by the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in Colorado, but in recent years, the practice has been discontinued. Trains headed to and from Carcross still stop here, but just to give the passengers a chance to use the facilities and stretch their legs.
This image was captured during a September 2025 photo shoot on the White Pass & Yukon Route, which featured the last remaining, operable steam locomotive on the line, that being the Baldwin #73, pictured here.