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The KM Ry. was abandoned in 1913. km Ry. assets sold to the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp. in 1925. In 1961 the locomotive was put on display at the Dawson City Museum in Dawson City, Yukon where it remains today. [3] 56 (ex-6) Baldwin Locomotive Works: 2-8-0. 16,800 lbf (75 kN) January 1899 16455 Purchased new. Originally #6. Renumbered to 56 ...
White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad Building is now a museum and home of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park White Pass & Yukon Route 1907 Ad. As the gold rush wound down, serious professional mining was taking its place; not so much for gold as for other metals such as copper, silver and lead. The closest port was Skagway, and the ...
The Mark II had a much larger six-wheeled cab that was over 20 feet (6.1 m) tall and was no longer articulated due to the ability for all the wheels to be steered. The turbine engine was much smaller than the diesel it replaced, allowing the interior to support a crew of six with sleeping quarters, toilets and a galley.
SS Klondike is the name of two sternwheelers, the second now a National Historic Site located in Whitehorse, Yukon.They ran freight between Whitehorse and Dawson City, along the Yukon River, the first from 1929 to 1936 and the second, an almost exact replica of the first, from 1937 to 1950.
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The G.I. pocket stove is 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (220 mm) high and 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (110 mm) in diameter, and weighs about 3 pounds (1.4 kg). It was designed to burn either leaded or unleaded automobile gasoline (sometimes referred to as "white gasoline" or pure gasoline, without lead or additives).
The central and northern Yukon were not glaciated, [2] as they were part of Beringia. At about AD 800, a large volcanic eruption in Mount Churchill near the Alaska border blanketed the southern Yukon with ash. [2] That layer of ash can still be seen along the Klondike Highway. Yukon First Nations stories speak of all the animals and fish dying ...
Mantel clock from 1880, manufactured by the Seth Thomas Clock Company. The Seth Thomas Clock Company was founded by Seth Thomas in Plymouth Hollow, Connecticut, and began producing clocks in 1813. [1]