The next stop on our trip was Skagway. This town - which is soooo tiny - is the home of the White Pass and Yukon Route. I want to say they said the town is only, like, 10 blocks by 5 blocks. Tiny. It was a railway that was built to take gold hunters (or stampeders) into the mountains and into Canada. We took the railway tour... you can see that the tracks ran right up to the side of our ship.

There are a lot of scenery pictures in this grouping and I apologize. I kept hoping I would capture the beauty of this place, but it just didn't happen.
Below is the Gold Rush Cemetery. There are two graves in this cemetery that holds the remains of the two most famous people in town: Soapy Smith and Frank Reid. They both died after a duel... a big deal in that town!

Our train...

There is an interesting story attached to this one... see how it looks like a circle of green around a big ol' white rock? Well, it is... in 1898 a blasting accident buried railroad workers and their pack mules under this 100-ton granite rock. The foreman of the crew placed a black cross on their resting place (you can barely see it)... hence the name of this location is "Black Cross Rock". Kind of humbling to know there are bodies still there, huh?
5 comments:
The goats look like they're going to fall off the side of the mountain!
if you click on the mt goat one it blows up real big and you can see them. very very cool pics.
Yup, there are the goats! Isn't that something?
Taking pictures that capture the essence of some places is one of the most difficult things to do. Once in a blue moon, I manage. So do you. I really liked these.
wowzers...amazing pics!! Thanks so much for sharing.
Those snowy mountains are beautiful.
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