Steel cantilever bridge for the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, summit of White Pass, Alaska, circa 1904

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• Subjects: Railroad bridges > Alaska > White Pass; Passes (Landforms) > Alaska; White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm); Bridges; Iron and steel > Alaska > White Pass; Cantilever; British Columbia; Canada; Carcross; Pacific; White Pass; Yukon; Dawson; glaciers; Skagway; Whitehorse; Yukon river; Alaska
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Caption on mount: Bridge, summit of White Pass Filed in Alaska--Passes/Trails--White Pass At the climax of the Gold Rush in 1898, the difficult trails leading to Canada from the coast of Alaska were completely insufficient to move the mass of equipment and supplies the stampeders wanted to carry to...