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The “Trail of ’98”. This trail is still discernible and may be seen on the way to Atlin.

and hoist body and baggage aboard
a AW en eahetel NGI were AW Erie
Patiently and You'll Ride,’’ as some
wit interpreted the initials of the
White Pass and Yukon Railway.
Many others, particularly among the
American G.I.’s running this line
during several war years, had much
less complimentary descriptions of
this historic railway.

If this is your lucky day, you are
soon clicking merrily over the rails.
Skagway is just slipping behind as
the train starts to climb, and looking
ahead, you can see the tracks stretch-
ing up a steep grade along the tor-
tuous Skagway River, and disappear-
ing around a sheer rock wall. Two
and sometimes three locomotives are
hooked on to the short train, as on
and up it carries you, over the famed
“Trail of ’98,” still discernible at
some places in the rocky gulches be-
low the tracks. Over Dead Horse
Gulch the train rumbles, and you
imagine yourself a bearded prospec-
tor, your worldly possessions on
your back, stumbling up the snew-
covered rocks, hoping to find a fur-
tune in gold nuggets at the end of
the Trail.

The train jerks to a stop in the
half-dark of a snow shed, and a fel-
low passenger informs you this is
White Pass Station, the Boundary
between Alaska and British Colum-

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bia. Good old B.C., must be close
to Atlin now, you surmise. The
train clanks along, gaining more
speed as the country flattens out
slightly, on the tracks at least, al-
though high and rocky peaks lie on
every side. There are many lakes
and streams here, and the clear, spar-
kling water looks inviting to the
fisherman, though rather chilly to
even an ardent swimmer.

SOURDOUGH’s DINNER

You glimpse Lake Lindeman,
where many Klondikers built their
rough whip-sawn boats, to sail
down Lake Bennett and eventually
down the Yukon River to Dawson.
The train stops on reaching Lake
Bennett, and everyone piles out and
into the old fashioned dining reom,
where tables are laden with a Sour-
dough’s dinner of moose-meat, po-
tatoes, beans and blue-berry pie in
season. The last bite is hastily
stuffed in as the train whistles impa-
tiently, you get a hurried vision of

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