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Points of Interest on the White Pass & Yukon Route Rail Line


MP 0 - Skagway

MP 1.0 - Engine 195, Skagway Museum

MP 1.1 - Salmon Hatchery

MP 1.7 - Car Storage Sidings

MP 2.0 - WP&YR Shops, elevation 56 feet

MP 2.5 - Gold Rush Cemetery

MP 4.5 - Boulder

MP 5.8 - Denver, elevation 498 feet

MP 6.9 - Rocky Point

MP 7.3 - Brackett Wagon Road

MP 8.5 - Clifton, elevation 638 feet

MP 8.8 - "On To Alaska With Buchanan" Rock

MP 9.5 - Pitch Fork Falls

MP 10.4 - Black Cross Rock

MP 11.5 - Bridal Veil Falls

MP 12.3 - Heney Station

MP 13.5 ca. - Powder Magazine

MP 14.0 - Glacier, elevation 1,870 feet

MP 15.7 - Slippery Rock

MP 15.9 - Tunnel Mountain ("15 Tunnel" is 250 feet long)

MP 16.0 - North end of 15 Tunnel

MP 16.9 - Inspiration Point, elevation 2,400 feet

MP 17.1 - Hannan Snow Shed (demolished)

MP 17.5 - Dead Horse Gulch

MP 18.3 - Gulch

MP 18.5 - Cantilever Bridge

MP 18.8 - Bridge 18A and Tunnel (tunnel is 670 feet long)

MP 19.1 - Trail of '98

MP 19.2 - American Snow Shed (demolished)

MP 20.4 - White Pass Summit, elevation 2,885 feet

MP 20.5 - Boundary Snow Shed (demolished)

MP 21.0 - Canadian Snow Shed (demolished)

MP 22-23 - Snow Fences

MP 23.5 - Gateway

MP 23.8 - Boxcar and Fuel Tank

MP 24.2 - Highest point on the rail line, elevation 2,940 feet

MP 25.3 - Meadows (abandoned siding), elevation 2,931 feet

MP 25.4 - Red Line Transportation Company sign

MP 26.8 ca. - Bridge 26A over the Thompson River

MP 27.5 - Fraser Loop Track

MP 27.7 - Fraser, elevation 2,764 feet

MP 29.8 - Ptarmigan Point

MP 30.5 - Portage (recreational cabins)

MP 31.8 - crossing of South Klondike Highway at Log Cabin

MP 32.7 - Log Cabin Station, elevation 2,916 feet

MP 34.0 - Meadows

MP 36.5 - Beaver Lake

MP 37.7 - Chilkoot Cut Off Trail (closed)

MP 40.6 - Bennett Station, elevation 2,158 feet

MP 43.0 - Avalanche Cannon Stand

MP 43.1 - Guard Rail Curve

MP 45.4 - Silver King Mine

MP 46.4 - Pavey Station

MP 49.3 - Heney/Graves Siding (built in 1970, renamed Graves Siding in 1989)

MP 51.6 - Pennington Station

MP 52.6 - British Columbia/Yukon Border

MP 53.0 - Graves of Luc Richard and Thomas Barnes

MP 55.6 - Gravel Pit Spur

MP 56.6 - Dundalk Station

MP 58.2 - Little Cabin

MP 59.4 - Watson Siding

MP 62.8 - Bridge 62A over MacDonald Creek

MP 62.9 - Historic MacDonald Creek Power Plant

MP 67.3 - Arctic Gold & Silver Mine Spur

MP 67.5 - Carcross

MP 74.9 - Landsdowne

MP 79.4 - Lorne

MP 81.5 - Minto

MP 84.0 - De Wette Station

MP 88.9 - Robinson

MP 95.1 - Cowley

MP 99.9 - Dugdale

MP 100.6 - Wolf Creek Bridge

MP 104.0 - Macrae

MP 105.5 - Utah Siding

MP 106.9 - Wye

MP 110.7 - Whitehorse





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