Back home in Skagway. After a full day of plowing between White Pass and Canadian Shed, White Pass Rotary #1 and her consort, Locomotive #73 sit on one of the shop tracks at the Skagway Sho... (more)

DONE! White Pass Rotary Pilot Mike O'Daniel watches from the pilot house as the Rotary Fleet finally busts through the 10 foot high drift that was blocking the platform at Bennett Station i... (more)

Deep in Canada's Boreal Forest. Tossing an arcing plume of ice and snow and pouring out a dark column of smoke that would make Beebe & Clegg rather happy, the White Pass Rotary Fleet contin... (more)

Next stop: Log Cabin. After clearing Canadian Customs and watering up at the last remaining water tank on the entire line, the White Pass Rotary Fleet heads north along the western shore of... (more)

Approaching White Pass Summit. Although the journey on the White Pass & Yukon Route for most cruise ship passengers ends at White Pass Station (MP 20.4), near the US/Canada Border, the actu... (more)

Up close with White Pass Rotary #1. One of the unique memories that I have of the 2011 White Pass Rotary Run was the ability of the photographers to get relatively close to the machine....a... (more)

Rocking pristine British Columbia. On the 3rd day of the 2011 White Pass Rotary Run, the White Pass Rotary Fleet presses north out of Canadian Shed, toward White Pass Summit, Fraser and poi... (more)

White Pass Station: The Rotary Fleet takes the lead. On the 3rd day of the 2011 White Pass Rotary Run, most of the really heavy plowing around White Pass Station and Canadian Shed had been ... (more)

Ready for battle! With the fuel and water tanks fully topped and all crew positions fully manned, the White Pass Rotary Fleet sits at Glacier Siding (MP 14.1) awaiting the order to move fro... (more)

Servicing Stop - Glacier Siding. With roughly 6 miles to go on the journey from Skagway to White Pass, the WPY Rotary Fleet comes to the attention of a servicing crew that has been pre-posi... (more)

OY in the Narrows

Rotary Steam Snow Plow D&RGW OY is battling heavy snow through the Narrows north of Chama, NM March 1, 2020. The Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec did an incred... (more)

Rotary OY after dark. Here's a rear quarter view of OY and her auxiliary water car as they sit in the Chama Yard. Like most of the Leslie-type rotary snow plows, OY was built as a standard... (more)

Rotary OY after dark. Rotary Snow Plow OY, her water car and Pusher Locomotive #487 sit at the Chama Coal Tipple after returning from the first day of operations. Lighting here was provide... (more)

Impact! My camera captures the instant that the charging rotary outfit makes explosive contact with the dense, 4 ft. deep snow pack in the yard at Cumbres Pass. The violence you see out in... (more)

Charge! After stalling out briefly in the dense, 4 ft. deep snow-pack on Cumbres Pass, the Rotary Outfit has backed up perhaps one car-length, and with two blasts of the small, shrill whist... (more)