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Day 98: Skagway, part 2

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Into the woods we go!

Yes indeed, it is a long train.  The green and yellow are the engines.

The WP&YR is a narrow gauge railway, and it makes very tight turns.

The engines are to the right of the far end of the cars you can see.

Way back down there is Skagway and our ship.

See?  Right there!

And on we go.

Here we take another tight curve.

Oh boy, a train yard!

The rive down below.

More river.

Dum, da, dee dum.  Hey, it did say it was a mile…

Here we are!

It seems to be a hump yard…a hump yard has a hump in the middle; depending on which side of the hump you disconnect the cars, you can get it to roll to where you want using gravity.

It may be the world’s smallest hump yard, but if you let the car go at the point where the engines are, it will roll ahead and block the line.  Before that point and it will end up in Skagway, many miles back!  Here is the end; perhaps they don’t use this as a hump yard after all…

And on we go, ever up, up and around!

Gloomy weather for a train ride.  I am glad I am not on a horse.

As you can see we get pretty close to the rocks and vegetation.  One of the wonderful things about narrow gauge trains!

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~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>

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