Comments on: I was still down in Skagway when the 5 days a week WP&YR passenger train to Carcross was laying over from 12:30 to 1PM. However I found this Fairmont A6-F4-1 track gang car with trailer, asleep a few tenths beyond Carcross station on the otherwise out-of-service track leading to Whitehorse. Purchased new by WP&YR in 1976, this Ford powered gas-mechanical speeder apparently continues to be used as needed. Fairmont closed down their business by 1979; I expect this is one of the last built for 3 foot gauge track. Can’t be many railways with operational Fairmont speeders nowadays. Hi-rail pickup trucks are more versatile – they are a good fit for standard gauge track, but not narrow gauges. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 07 May 2026 18:00:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jp4pix http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=34035#comment-27516 jp4pix Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:09:10 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/wpyr2020_CarcrossYT_2018-0703.jpg#comment-27516 This track is a bit north of Carcross station. I suspect this is the main line side of the Carcross wye, and that WP&YR have been using this wye to turn many/all of the 5 trains a week that terminate at Carcross. This is different from what happens with trains that terminate at Fraser BC - they have a double ended siding, not a wye, so the engines uncouple and switch ends. My current theory is that the rails get rustier within a mile north of this spot. This track is a bit north of Carcross station. I suspect this is the main line side of the Carcross wye, and that WP&YR have been using this wye to turn many/all of the 5 trains a week that terminate at Carcross. This is different from what happens with trains that terminate at Fraser BC – they have a double ended siding, not a wye, so the engines uncouple and switch ends. My current theory is that the rails get rustier within a mile north of this spot.

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=34035#comment-27514 Stephen C. Host Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:18:47 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/wpyr2020_CarcrossYT_2018-0703.jpg#comment-27514 Trains appear to run to Carcross regularly with bus connections to Whitehorse. https://wpyr.com/excursions/all-trains-motorcoach-connections-via-carcross-bennett/ Trains appear to run to Carcross regularly with bus connections to Whitehorse.

https://wpyr.com/excursions/all-trains-motorcoach-connections-via-carcross-bennett/

]]> By: jp4pix http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=34035#comment-27506 jp4pix Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:59:58 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/wpyr2020_CarcrossYT_2018-0703.jpg#comment-27506 On closer observation, something has been keeping the the track tops in this picture free of heavy rust. However a few miles south of Whitehorse the track was obviously out of service. Along the Yukon River in Whitehorse city, the tracks are maintained nicely for use by Whitehorse's summer-season non-electric trolley - though 2018 resumption of service was apparently behind schedule. On closer observation, something has been keeping the the track tops in this picture free of heavy rust. However a few miles south of Whitehorse the track was obviously out of service. Along the Yukon River in Whitehorse city, the tracks are maintained nicely for use by Whitehorse’s summer-season non-electric trolley – though 2018 resumption of service was apparently behind schedule.

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