First train to Bennett at Log Cabin, B.C., July 6, 1899

• Main Author: Case & Draper
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Gold rushes; Passengers; Railroads; White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm); Yukon; White Pass; Log Cabin; Draper; Skagway; Whitehorse; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7049

On July 6, 1899, railroad construction workers finally completed the White Pass & Yukon Route through White Pass to Lake Bennett, British Columbia. It took just over a year to build the 40-mile track from Skagway, Alaska. The line was extended another seventy miles to Whitehorse in the summer of...