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A really scary abandoned trestle
This no-longer-used bridge and trestle looks so delicate, I was very glad it it no longer in use.
Two more photographs of this bridge and trestle combination. Make sure you click on the one at the right, so you can see the details of the wooden trestle, including the sag before the metal structure.
Left: The scene shortly before arriving at Skagway, its railroad yard, and harbor. Right: As we reaches the last part of the trip, the conductor once again jumped off the moving train and ran ahead to flip a turnout, this one to send us to a siding so a norther train could pass.
Motive Power, Rolling Stock, and Various Details
Left: The Duchess, an 0-6-0T on display in Carcoss. Right: No. 52, an old 2-6-0 on display near the Skagway harbor.
Left: A tender 1n the Skagway yards. Right: A rotary snowplow displayed next to no. 52.
Two details: the old-fashioned trucks and the cables connecting the two engines.
Left: Each engine had a re-railer on both sides. Right: We passed this home made from an ancient wooden freight car.
The engine yards and yards on the outskirts of Skagway. The old flatcars in the foreground are fitted with grooved metal racks that I suspect will hold long sections of welded track, piles of which we passed in the yard. Unfortunately, I had to leave the platform before we had a chance to photograph the entire yard in detail.
