Wednesday, November 4, 1998

most people probably did-
n't notice, but we lost'a
piece of history last week.
~ It happened on ‘the last
- working. day of October in:
Whitehorse in the Yukon. The .
~. offices of the White Pass rail-
way Closed. The company, like
“the sound of the steam whis-:
* tles on most of its trains, has
faded into silence.
; ..- If railways were instrumen- -
‘ tal in opening up this country,
-the White Pass line played its
part in the North. The railway
connected : Whitehorse: with .
1
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= I happened so quietly that

Skagway on the Alaska coast,” -
. town, itheads toward the pass.

ae providing overland access toa
seaports a
“The narrow gauge steel rib- .

--tains through such communi: :

“rivers, flying on trestle bridges
~ over roaring waterfalls:They
- paralleled the ‘route followed
_ during the gold rush « of the last

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The wail of the steam whistle forever silenced i in 1 the Yukon

“wasn't economical any longer

tourist. attraction, one. old

haunting. wail of the steam
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"steam engine can't make the
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