Alpine scenery has no equal!
Mark
If you fall, how far will you roll?
You are on the White Pass and Yukon Railway. I would love to visit there sometime soon
Trains stop at train stations, Subways stop at subway stations, On my desk I have a work station.
Guys! These are scenery tips, don't you know? There is a testle underneath this view. I presume those boards lying there are a result of wear/tear and maintenance. Notice how the trees hug the cliffs, as well as the shrubs Rocks are mostly shades of gray and brown. There is a shear cliff behind the camera, so there is little water coursing down this gulch. (Perhaps a glacier ran down here centuries ago.) And don't tell me that Appalachia is the only "tree country" although you won't see many trees in the opposite direction as we're at treeline..
dougfearon You are on the White Pass and Yukon Railway. I would love to visit there sometime soon
You're correct! The first photo shows the train approaching White Pass.
Cruises are very inexpensive now. Take an Alaskan Cruise that goes to Skagway! (most likely leaving Seattle or Vancouver, but better yet from San Francisco.) The railroad and the local people depend on you! Delay will only cost you in the long run.
Here we are. Looking west toward the sign. The camera is at the pass, obviously below the sign which is on the westward cliff overlooking the pass.
This is nearly the opposite view from the gulch. The gulch photo was taken from atop the trestle.
Same trestle/tunnel, back a bit:
I also shot some video on the trip, using my palm sized Canon Powershot still camera. Not the greatest, but does show a lot of what was on the trip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Ew97jY_mM
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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Fooled me!! From the looks of the cars in the first pic, I thought India or S America in the Andes!! I don't particularly like heights - don't book me on that train!!!!
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It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Mark, that's a question I ask myself more and more frequently the older I get. Oh, wait a minute, you want to know where YOU are!!
Well, you're on the White Pass and Yukon Railway. I have decided that I have to visit it before I have to do so in a wheelchair, so I'm thinking of doing the Inside Gateway cruise this summer. After doing Durango and Silverton, I've decided that I really like 3-foot guage rails clinging to sheer drops, LOL.
GREAT photos, BTW!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Just looking at the post title I thought you were just waking up in a sleeping compartment after having been conked on the head by a femme fatale; at least it sounded like a line from a Sam Spade movie.
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
The White Pass Railroad-Yukon Terratory.
What do I win?
Edit: Curse my slow fingers. You guys beat me to it!
Here are some more for you enjoyment:
Here's the other end of that hill you are looking down from the wood trestle....
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
I've been to the White Pass on a cruise from Vancouver, but unfortunetely there was an avalanche so the train trip was canceled... I was really looking forward to it... At least I have an excuse to go back someday!
Amazing! You are all correct. By the way, all the photos were taken with the playing-card-size Canon Elph like that pictured below.
That's my femme fatale. No you can't have her; she's already taken.
PS -- Last year, when these pictures were taken, they were still talking about the slide.
markpierce This is nearly the opposite view from the gulch. The gulch photo was taken from atop the trestle.
That shot looks more model than real! I was going to say directly above the center of the Earth.
The White Pass and Yukon Route (actual name) is a great senic narrow gauge line. Take a look at www.wpyr.com and then look under multimedia to see some video clips. Awesome!