RailPictures.Net Photo: WPY 1 White Pass & Yukon Route Rotary Snow Plow at Skagway, Alaska by Kevin Madore

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» White Pass & Yukon Route (more..)
» Rotary Snow Plow (more..)

» Inspiration Point (MP 17)
» Skagway, Alaska, USA (more..)
» April 27, 2011

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Steamscape: Inspiration Point. The White Pass Rotary Fleet claws its way past Inspiration Point en route to another day of operations to clear the line for the opening of the tourist season, which is little more than a week away. The sun is now peeking over the aptly-named Sawtooth Range to the southeast and is finally beginning to erase the shadows in the valley. Each day, the conductor of our photographer's train, Craig Cline, would stop just beyond the Cantilever Bridge and allow us to hike to the spot from which this photo was taken. I must tell you that watching the plow train ascend the mountain from here is every bit as thrilling as watching a double-header climb to Cumbres Pass in Colorado. The scenery is entirely different, but the experience is the same. The one thing I could not capture with my camera was the sound. The sound of the steam engines hammering up the steep grade and their whistles echoing off the mountains is a memory of this place that I will always keep.

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