Steam Trains From Great Britain and Beyond

Yukon: Essence of the Gold Rush

1. Yukon

The Yukon, the vast majority, robust, sparsely populated tract of land located above the 60th parallel north-western Canada, which shares its border with Alaska and win slogan accurately self-proclaimed of "larger than life", is a diversified topography, serene beauty and intoxicating attractive territory of sterile, treeless plains, boreal forests, rugged mountains, glaciers and lakes and rivers reflecting mirror inhabited by people of First Nations of Canada and abundant wildlife. Because of its high latitude, it experiences more than 20 hours of daylight during the summer, but less than five in winter, replaced, instead, by the northern lights known as the aurora borealis. " Apart from the large "cities", most communities are accessible only by floatplane or sleigh Dog.

The Yukon's history is, in essence, that the gold rush. Powered by August 16, 1896 discovery of a nugget gold in north-western Canada at the confluence of the Yukon River and Klondike Rivers, began when some 100,000 seeking wealth and adventure, go on what had been designated later, the Klondike Gold Rush Trail between 1897 and 1898. The event, which produces a population explosion instant and finally shaped the country, traces his path to five major locations, both the U.S. and Canada.

First of them, Seattle, Washington, served as the gateway to the Yukon. Presented as the provider "fields of gold", it sold supplies and Rolling Stock ten feet deep on the sidewalks showcase, grossing 25 million dollars in sales by early-1898, and was the starting point for the all-water route across the Gulf of Alaska in Saint-Michel, then down the Yukon River to Dawson City. Despite high tariffs, which could afford a few, all the passes had been sold.

Dyea and the Chilkoot Trail, the second location, had provided slower, more treacherous, alternate route, via the 33-mile Chilkoot trail connecting Alaska with the tidal headwaters of Canada's Yukon River.

Skagway, Alaska, the third location, quickly replaced Dyea the "Gateway to the Klondike" because of its route over White Pass waterway which, although ten miles longer than that of the Chilkoot Trail, had resulted in a rise of 600 feet below. The trail quickly destroyed due to overexploitation, finally been replaced by the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, whose construction, financed by British investors, began in May 1898 and extended Summit by the White Pass in February of 1899, Lake Bennett in July of 1899, and Whitehorse in July of next year. Skagway itself had been transformed a clear, on the ground trying to walk dotted the streets lined with wooden buildings with 80 rooms sport within four months between August and December 1897.

At Lake Bennett, the fourth location, 30,000 gold seekers awaiting the spring thaw, the construction of 7124 Green wooden boats whipsawn and launch their fleet, 29 May 1898, the fight against the Whitehorse Rapids before following the Yukon River to Dawson City.

Dawson itself, the location of the fifth, was the site of the discovery of gold nugget first and started as a small island between the Yukon and Klondike rivers previously occupied by the Han peoples First Nations, but has exploded in western Canada's largest City of Winnipeg and north of Vancouver, with up to 40,000 gold seekers who cover an area of ten miles along the shore. Thirty cords of wood were used to burn the trees in the permafrost in the mines themselves. Among the 4,000 who actually discovered gold, only a few hundred ultimately led to "rich".

2. Whitehorse

Whitehorse, Yukon's capital on the wild shores of the Yukon River, with a population of 23,000, which itself had been shaped by the gold rush and the means of transport which is developed to facilitate it. Named for the rapids of the Yukon River which resembled the manes of charging white horses, the area was first used fishing camp Kwanlin Dun The First Nations peoples. In 1987, the tent compound Canyon City was the basis of an operational tram pulled by horses, for a fee, transportation people and goods, including gold rushers, around the treacherous White Horse Rapids on rails log.

Three years later, in 1900, traces of the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad reached the town, now the only railroad narrow gauge international still operating in North America, and the passengers transferred serving large river, which finished the trip to Dawson City in the Yukon River.

In 1942, the U.S. military ended the 1534-mile Alaska Highway in a record eight months, 23 days, and Whitehorse was incorporated as a city in 1950. Three years later, he replaced Dawson as the capital of the Yukon.

Whitehorse is itself accessible by multiple travel modes. The pavement of Alaska, Haines and Klondike Highways provide road access to the interior and Alaska, while the gravel Dempster Highway that connects the town of Dawson to Inuvik, above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories. Alaska Marine Highway and multiple cruise ships daily serving Skagway and Haines, Alaska, during the summer. The White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad Skagway and Bennett with Fraser Lake, British Columbia, with a service that will soon be extended to Whitehorse. And the Whitehorse Airport offers daily service by via Air North, Air Canada Jazz, First Air and Condor, Yellowknife, Dawson, Fairbanks, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Frankfurt, Germany. Seaplane provide community access remotely.

The history of Whitehorse can be traced by its many sights and attractions.

The MacBride Museum, for example, toted as "the first museum in the Yukon" and housed in a log structure with a sod roof, has been created in 1951 by historian Bill MacBride to explore the Yukon's history. It has stuffed wildlife in its upper gallery, "Rivers of Gold" an exhibition illustrating the exploration and the Yukon Placer Mining since 1883, and Yukon First Nations peoples, in its lower gallery, and early copper mining equipment, blacksmithing, and Sam McGee's Original, 1899 in a cabin with two exhibition spaces outside. The other contains the steps land used by the White Pass & Yukon Route between Whitehorse and Dawson, 1895 North West Mounted Police patrol car, and Engine number 51, built in 1881 and used on the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad seven years later in 1898.

The Old Log Church Museum, a cathedral Anglican, built in 1900, is one of the oldest buildings in Whitehorse and tells the story of the missionaries at the beginning of the Yukon, including the priest who survived a winter expedition by eating his boots for sustenance.

Perhaps the most popular show, and serves as a symbol of the city itself, is the SS Klondike National Historic Site of Canada. Most of the 250 paddle steamers have exercised the Yukon River to 64 meters long and 12.5 meters wide, It was built in 1920 by the British Yukon Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, in the city of Whitehorse himself, and had been an integral part of transportation waterway that connects Whitehorse with the rest of the territory and, therefore, has been the principle of its own growth.

The design, which traced its lineage back to 1866 when the first riverboat steam reached such Selkirk SS Klondike I, with a weight 1362.5-GRT and powered by two 525-hp motors compounds of jet condenser, was marked by a revolutionary hull which enabled him to offer a cargo volume of 50 percent over previous configurations without sacrificing instability shallow draft, allowing it to accommodate more than 300 tons burden for the first time, along with 75 passengers, the first and second class. In its three bridges, the first, or main, deck housed the engines, boilers, and goods, the second room, communications room, dining room, kitchen and terrace, and the third bridge and crew quarters.

Follow the same size Klondike II after the vessel ran aground in 1936 original, itself completed its 460-mile downstream from Whitehorse to Dawson in 36 hours with only one or two stops of the recovery of wood, it has been used as boat goods between 1937 and 1952 and was eventually transformed into a small cruise ship for the service until 1955.

The boat in dry dock appears in its current form in 1930.

The Whitehorse Train Depot, which replaced the originally built, but later, the fire-eaten structure architecture reflects the typical Western Canada from the early 20th century, although changes had been made during the Second War World and during the Alaska Highway project. After a regular train service was discontinued in 1982, the Yukon government had purchased the building and the room was restored, his passenger waiting now to his legacy of the 1950s.

The trolley Whitehorse waterfront, using the narrow gauge White Pass and the railway tracks Yukon Road and parallel to the Yukon River with stops at Rotary Peace Park, the Tourist Information Centre, White Pass Train Depot, Wood Street, Park shipyard and Kishwoot Station, and Spook Creek, provides an excellent introduction to the city using a car alone cart the number 531, for his service return every hour.

The car itself, in its original colors of yellow, had been partially constructed by JG Brill Company of Philadelphia in 1925 for the Society of Lisbon electric then assembled the kit in his studio in Santo Amaro. Of the 202 cars built there, 24 had been 531 car type.

Trolley 531 worked in Lisbon until 1976, when she had been acquired for the Museum of Transport in Lake Superior in Duluth, Minn., where he remained until the Yukon government had purchased in 1999. Flatbed trucking, freezing cold and ice, allowed to reach the White Pass & Yukon Route restoration engine submission to Whitehorse, January 6, 2000.

The tram double ended, with controls at each end, two 25-HP General Electric engines K.3 and two controllers, and was designed to run on overhead power lines with a power pole, but the absence of such facilities in Whitehorse need the provision of a temporary trailer electrical generator installed. This operation 600 volts initially planned to replace its current 550 volts, and installation of railway wheels allows it to run on the White Pass and 36-inch tracks Yukon Route Railroad, although it was designed, with its wagon wheel base of origin, use the narrowest rail width of 34.5 inches.

Because the body also standard gauge, it allows four abreast, two-two, sitting on an oak wood veneer, mahogany, and the inside of the icing with original signs still in Portuguese.

The Whitehorse Rapids fish ladder and livestock, located Five minutes from the city, resulted in the construction of the late 1950s the Whitehorse Rapids Hydroelectric Facility by the Northeast Energy Commission Canada. Alaska and the Klondike Highway, linking many communities and eliminating the need for the transportation system sternwheeler river, and Vital, has finally moved the capital of the Yukon from Dawson City to Whitehorse, and expansion of the population could be supported by the method of electricity from the generator diesel downtown. Construction of large-capacity hydroelectric dams, beginning in 1956, formed Schwatka Lake, and it generates electricity primarily the city two years later, in 1958.

Although the installation of improved quality of life of the human population, it turned out, to the detriment of species of salmon in the River. Salmon ascended the Yukon River to spawn thousands of years, lay their eggs in the gravel after the gestation period of winter hatched fry in early spring, and nurtured and developed in the cold, clear waters for a period not exceeding two years. Swim to the ocean, they came back a few years later in the exact place of birth to lay their own eggs and start the process again.

To circumvent the new hydroelectric dam and allow them to continue their life cycle, the world's longest wooden fish ladder, at 366 meters, was built in 1959. Increased gradually through steps of 15 meters from the Yukon River to Lake Schwatka, it allows salmon safely bypass the dam and continue their migration process.

One hour boat cruise on Lake-two Schwatka the name-appropriate m / v Schwatka, a 28-ton, double-decked passenger vessel 40, provides an excellent introduction to Whitehorse wild side and sails through Miles Canyon, the turbulent "Devil's Punchbowl" and the Yukon River itself.

Many interesting sights are along the Alaska Highway, up Two Mile Hill Road.

Copperbelt Mining Railway and Museum, the first of them gives a figure-eight loop 1.8 km of the red building McIntyre station through the thin forest of spruce, using an abandoned spur of the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad located in the historic district of Whitehorse Copperbelt mining. Its two engines, 10 – and 20-HP diesel Loke, were manufactured by the Jenacher Werks in Austria in 1969 and 1967, respectively.

Yukon Heritage Transportation Museum is the Gold Rush territory transport, travel unusual display modes associated with the North, the racket for the sled Dog shows in the plane. Include a Canadian Pacific DC-3 mounted on a pedestal outside, a full-size boat, the "Neecheah, and a steam Locomotive. Inside exhibits include a car gasoline Casey, who transported the workers back on track, a car used by the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, a White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad model train layout, a Ryan B-1 Bougham designated "Queen of the Yukon" a sister ship of Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis, which served as the first commercial aircraft have been operated in the Yukon after its takeover of the plant San Diego by Yukon Airways and Exploration, Ltd., in 1927 for $ 10,200.00; sled dogs, a 1927 Chevrolet convertible, a five-cylinder Kinner engine Lycoming R-680 engine, a 1965 International Travelall Ambulance, a welded steel frame of a Fairchild FC-2W2, a Smith DGA-1 Miniplane "Homebuilder; a bus from the bus BYN, military vehicles, including a seven-passenger Dodge Carryall used by the U.S. Army Command Northwest Service during the Alcan Highway construction, rail and tram newspaper that used newspapers parallel "tracks".

Centre Interpretation of Beringia Beringia examines a sub-continent the last Ice Age which was located in the Bering Strait and encompassed Siberia, Alaska and the Yukon. Although the rest of Canada had filed under sheets of ice mass, the Bering himself had been spared by glaciers due to the reduction of 125 meters from sea level, the production of the tundra that hard, dry grass have supported a wide range of herbivores and carnivores.

The woolly mammoth, among them, was the predecessor of the modern Asian elephant and a sports museum size distribution of the largest example ever found. The short-faced bear, which had been a foot taller than the grizzly bear consideration today, was the largest land carnivore strongest in North America during the last glacial period. The museum also features a reconstruction Site of archaeological Bluefish Cave 24,000 years.

The first inhabitants of the man, following herds of bison and mammoth 24,000 years ago, had migrated from western Beringia aware of Canada.

3. Kluane National Park

One of the four parks contiguous national and provincial, including the Yukon 21,980 km square of Kluane National Park, Alaska 52600 km square Wrangell-St. Elias Park National, Alaska 13,360 km square of Glacier Bay National Park, British Columbia and 9580 km square Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, Park Kluane National Park is itself diverse topography, involving massive mountains, valleys, lakes, boreal forests, glaciers and valley icefields. Two mountains of Kluane Icefield and-sports-following the highest peak in Canada, Mount Logan, at 19,545 feet. The largest non-polar icefield in the world, a remnant of the last glacial period, is also located here.

Of the two types of populations, human and animal, the first includes Tutchone South, who had already lived a nomadic life, but continue to practice a culture that is closely revolves around the natural world, and it includes the Bear grizzly bear, lynx, mountain goats, moose, wolves, black bears, caribou, coyotes, 180 species of birds, and the world largest concentration Dall sheep.

Haines Junction, which is located two hours from Whitehorse via the Alaska Highway and is the basis of the national park, is one year, a village full of services which modern history began in 1942 with the completion of the Alaska Highway to milepost in 1016. A year Later, a branch, by the Chilkat Pass, he linked to Haines, Alaska, and Kluane National Park was designated a reserve in 1972.

His little shows, always flanked by breathtaking, purple-dyed in the St. Elias Mountains, the monument of the village, a sculpture of the local wildlife, the eight-sided log St. Christopher ' the Anglican Church, and Our Lady of the Way Catholic Church, which was built in 1954 of a shack, the old army remains the road project in Alaska.

The ubiquitous thin, dark green spruce, encountered during my own visit the national park, bordered on each side of the deserted road Haines, the vertical edge of the St. Elias Mountains, Kluane National Park on the right shades of purple, chocolate brown and velvet green at their base. The silvery surface of Lake Kathleen reflects them.

Kluane National Park and adjacent Wrangell-St. Elias National Monument to the border United States have been jointly appointed to the World Heritage List in 1979. Together, the properties show a continuous, natural system intact with a rich variety of vegetation patterns and ecosystems.

The first step of my own record found pebble beach, which, acting as a threshold, led to the emerald green waters of Lake Kathleen, hooks on each side by tall, silent, fragrant spruce, the water itself interface with the mountain green carpet across a smooth transition, taking the eye until brown, top vegetationless, from which a thin "s" of snow still writhing, a remnant of the long winter and short summer "Pause" between the next glacial cycle. As it was August, the beginning was not very course in these northern latitudes.

The kokanee, living in the freshwater lake for the first three years of his life, swimming the short distance from Lake Sockeye fourth year, when he dies. In the 1700s, the Lowell Glacier surged into the river Alaska blocking its drainage into the Pacific Ocean and thus creating a huge lake. When the dam broke suddenly in 1856, the waters had been published in torrential floods, draining the pond.

Kluane National Park sports two glaciers of ice and rock, it was cold, alpine environments on mountain slopes. During the past 8000 years, the substrate rock fragments broken by breaking through the freezing and thawing action of winter-summer cycle. lubricated by meltwater, and riding a core of glacier ice, a constantly accumulating mass of rock slowly ground her down the mountain, forming rock glaciers.

The huge A deep blue lake Dezadeash encountered in another case, had been surrounded by mountains considerably distanced whose gentle curve inverted bowl-like peaks had been reduced to gray and green silhouettes almost indistinguishable in the early afternoon in high and clear, bright sun. The sky was a flawless blue.

Klukshu village, dotted with small log cabins and a gift shop, has been an important venue for many CAFN families, especially during salmon spawning season between June and September when the king sockeye, coho and migrate to the River.

4. Conclusion

The Yukon, with its capital, Whitehorse and wilderness Kluane National Park, in fact provides an interesting journey through its Gold Rush heritage and the means of transport which has developed to facilitate it.

About the Author

A graduate of Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus with a summa-cum-laude BA Degree in Comparative Languages and Journalism, I have subsequently earned the Continuing Community Education Teaching Certificate from the Nassau Association for Continuing Community Education (NACCE) at Molloy College, the Travel Career Development Certificate from the Institute of Certified Travel Agents (ICTA) at LIU, and the AAS Degree in Aerospace Technology at the State University of New York – College of Technology at Farmingdale. Having amassed almost three decades in the airline industry, I managed the New York-JFK and Washington-Dulles stations at Austrian Airlines, created the North American Station Training Program, served as an Aviation Advisor to Farmingdale State University of New York, and devised and taught the Airline Management Certificate Program at the Long Island Educational Opportunity Center. A freelance author, I have written some 70 books of the short story, novel, nonfiction, essay, poetry, article, log, curriculum, training manual, and textbook genre in English, German, and Spanish, having principally focused on aviation and travel, and I have been published in book, magazine, newsletter, and electronic Web site form. I am a writer for Cole Palen’s Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York. I have made some 350 lifetime trips by air, sea, rail, and road.

Eastern Region of British Railways, new Locomotives and new weathering at Eastcote Central

Ladybird Book STRETCHED CANVAS, British Railway Locomotives, 50cm – THIS IS A CANVAS NOT A BOOK £75.00 Images from the Ladybird Archive. © LadyBird Books Ltd 2008. Licensed by Copyrights Group. www.ladybird.comOne of over 500 images available from the Ladybird Book Archive. Each product is made to order and is available in a variety of different sizesClick here to view other sizes that this image is available inThe original images available from this collection come in all shapes and sizes. When y…

Tracery – British Railways steam locomotive 60059 (greetings card) £1.75 The Rothbury Collection is a range of quality greetings cards focusing on transport, nostalgia and animals. Each card measures 17.5 x 12.5 cm, comes with a good quality cream envelope, and is cellophane wrapped. Superb, highly detailed artwork which will look good on display….

Ladybird Book STRETCHED CANVAS, British Railway Locomotives, 125cm – THIS IS A CANVAS NOT A BOOK £225.00 Images from the Ladybird Archive. © LadyBird Books Ltd 2008. Licensed by Copyrights Group. www.ladybird.comOne of over 500 images available from the Ladybird Book Archive. Each product is made to order and is available in a variety of different sizesClick here to view other sizes that this image is available inThe original images available from this collection come in all shapes and sizes. When y…

Trains Deluxe 2 £15.62 …

Rail Simulator (PC DVD) £13.74 Rail Simulator is the next step in railway simulation. It allows the player to take on the role of a train driver and guide a number of contemporary and historical trains through several meticulously recreated routes in the UK and Germany. The player is made responsible for everything involved in getting an electric, diesel or steam train started and to keep it rolling; from observing the tra…

A4 Pacific Class: Add-On for Rail Simulator, Railworks & Railworks 2 (PC CD-ROM) £7.99 …

Best of Steam Trains Gift pack [DVD] £5.37 A glorious tribute to the golden age of steam trains across England, Scotland and Wales….

Steam On Shed Volume 2 – DVD – Transport Video Publishing £9.95 A second nationwide tour of some of Britain’s best loved locomotive sheds. 17B, 35A, 81F, 71A, 89C – in the 1950s these codes were an integral part of the steam scene. The motive power depots they denoted became a source of pilgrimage for enthusiasts. This programme explores the sheds of the era using archive film and features the following: 17B Burton-On-Trent 24B Rose Grove 35A New Eng…

British Railways Box Set [DVD] £13.80 …

Handcrafted English Pewter Steam Rail Locomotive Train Driver Bookmark – Ideal Gift for any Train lover / Book Reader / Train Driver / Train Spotter – SUPPLIED IN A PRESENTATION GIFT BOX £7.99 Handcrafted English Pewter Bookmark The stem locates between the pages without damaging them, then loops over so that the attractive design sits on the spine of the book which can be returned to the bookcase. It would make an ideal gift , or just as a treat for yourself. Will be a superb addition to any Book collection….