In the mid seventies, when I worked on the B&B, there were rail ties just about everywhere on the US side. We traveled all the way to Carcross for station and bridge work, with weeks spent in Carcross and Bennett and White Pass.
It is fun to dial back in time to remember those days. Paul Cyr was a Canadian operator who lived in Skagway, married to Alice. He ran a dozer all winter to kep the track clear of snow. It was impressive to see him "walk" the D7 across the bridges when they were packed with snow and ice. He was also the guy we wanted operating the old Bucyrus crane. It was a relic.
My motor car license was signed by a fellow named HIsman whom I believe started out running the shops and them moved to the head office. Tommy Mathews was the B&B forman when I started there folowed by Carl Hoover.
I left in the early eighties shortly before the RR shut down. It is good to see it in operation as a senic road at least as far as Carcross. Perhaps it will open back up to Whitehorse some day if they can find enough people willing to commit a whole day to go 110 miles.
RGHaupt In the mid seventies, when I worked on the B&B, there were rail ties just about everywhere on the US side. We traveled all the way to Carcross for station and bridge work, with weeks spent in Carcross and Bennett and White Pass. It is fun to dial back in time to remember those days. Paul Cyr was a Canadian operator who lived in Skagway, married to Alice. He ran a dozer all winter to kep the track clear of snow. It was impressive to see him "walk" the D7 across the bridges when they were packed with snow and ice. He was also the guy we wanted operating the old Bucyrus crane. It was a relic. My motor car license was signed by a fellow named HIsman whom I believe started out running the shops and them moved to the head office. Tommy Mathews was the B&B forman when I started there folowed by Carl Hoover. I left in the early eighties shortly before the RR shut down. It is good to see it in operation as a senic road at least as far as Carcross. Perhaps it will open back up to Whitehorse some day if they can find enough people willing to commit a whole day to go 110 miles.
Hi RG
I was Carx school engineer at that time......
Sounds like in your day that the B@B worked to Carcoss from Skagway. I'm not surprised to hear that. I thought, from what I remembered, that Roadmaster Klein had authority further north than Bennett..... If what the Carx section men said was true. B@B probably did special projects over the whole line.....
If Paul Cyr worked at White Pass in the winter at that time then he would most likely known the Sutton brothers (Len and Jim). They both did snow clearing at WP then.
I don't know if B@B did a lot of work north of Carx at that time, given that the work north of Carx would have been bridge and not building ( and Wally was section foreman North of Carx) as there were no buildings to maintain north of the Carx Section house at 67.5 mp in 1975, other than the Station at Whitehorse. MP 110.0. You may well have known John Wally and Walter Helm at that time as they were CARX North and CARX South section foremen respectively.
For the rest.....there's more to fill in....
Charlie
Chilliwack, BC
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