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The White Pass and Yukon Route Railway | 
 enlarge | Author: Graham Wilson
Publisher: Wolf Creek Books
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1662451
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0968195520
Dewey Decimal Number: 385.52097191
EAN: 9780968195529
ASIN: 0968195520
Publication Date: May 1998
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Product Description
After 100 years, the "railway built of gold" still carves a path through one of the most treacherous mountain passes imaginable. With 125 spectacular historic photographs along with fascinating anecdotes and personal accounts, this book tells the exciting story of the world's northernmost narrow-gauge railway. 125 photos.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fantastic Pictorial History August 4, 2003
Great pictures with a historical outline. For more thorough history look elsewhere.
 Stock archive photos, minimal text July 27, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A disappointing collection of photographs, most of them previously published. The text is limited to one page "chapter" introductions, with no new information and what is there is often misleading. Subtitled "100th Aniversary Collection", it is an obvious attempt to cash in on the tourist trade. Most captions are so brief as to be useless. The same photo is printed twice, once identified as at Bennett, the other time as at White Pass Summit. A group of passengers photographed on the rear platform of a passenger car is captioned as taken on a "caboose". Several photos of passengers riding flat cars are captioned as riding "flatbeds". The switchback at Dead Horse Gulch is identified as "near the summit" while the later cantilever bridge on adjacent pages is never explained as the switchback replacement. The only strengths of this book are the quotes from contemporary newspapers and the coated paper which improves some, but! not all, of the previously published photos. If you are looking for a good history or new information on the White Pass, look elsewhere.
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