AB Mountain

AB Mountain above Skagway, Alaska. So named because the melting snow appears to form the letters AB on the face of the mountaun. View from a White Pass & Yukon excursion train. DSC_0945

The White Pass and Yukon Route

August 18th 2023
The fabled White Pass & Yukon Railway was built from Skagway, Alaska, to Carcross, Yukon Territory, between 1898 and 1900. It was the height of the Yukon Gold Rush. The narrow gauge 3-foot railway has been in operation since then. The railway paid for itself in its first years of operation by taking gold prospectors and their equipment to Lake Bennett in Canada. Later, it was extended to Whitehors ... read more

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