White Pass and Yukon Railroad as it passes through Bennet, British Comumbia.

Built in response to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, the White Pass and Yukon Railroad is considered, along with such engineering feats as the Panama Canal, to be one of the engineering marvels of the world. The rail road connects the town of White Horse in the Yukon Territory with Skagway, Alaska. Although the rail road is only 110 miles in length, it rises more than 3000 feet in just twenty miles that consist of steep grades, gravity defying tressels and cliff hanging turns. The first passenger train carried $500,000 worth of gold and the Klondike gold rush went on to prove to be the largest gold rush the world has ever known. The railroad was closed in 1982 in response to a drop in the world's metal prices and reopened as a tourist train in 1988.

Our trip began in the town of Caribou Crossing in the Yukon Territory and ended in Skagway.

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