The White Pass and Yukon Route Railway

excellent

Amazing what these people accomplished building that railway in Alaska Territory. After riding it, I had to know more. Thoroughly enjoyed this little book

To bring up the rating, this book contains some great pictures with a historical outline. For more thorough history look elsewhere.

This book offered fascinating insights and a new perspective on Alaskan History.

I was hoping for a history of the White Pass railroad but this is just a photo book with captions.

Full of great photos. Wish there was more on the story of the building of the line.

A disappointing collection of photographs, most of them previously published. The text is limited to one page "chapter" introductions, with no new information and what is there is often misleading. Subtitled "100th Aniversary Collection", it is an obvious attempt to cash in on the tourist trade. Most captions are so brief as to be useless. The same photo is printed twice, once identified as at Bennett, the other time as at White Pass Summit. A group of passengers photographed on the rear platform of a passenger car is captioned as taken on a "caboose". Several photos of passengers riding flat cars are captioned as riding "flatbeds". The switchback at Dead Horse Gulch is identified as "near the summit" while the later cantilever bridge on adjacent pages is never explained as the switchback replacement. The only strengths of this book are the quotes from contemporary newspapers and the coated paper which improves some, but! not all, of the previously published photos. If you are looking for a good history or new information on the White Pass, look elsewhere.