The golden spike was driven to mark the completion of the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway on July 29, 1900. It was the beginning of a fully integrated rail transportation system - which grew to include lakes & river steamboats, stage lines, aircr…
Construction of the White Pass & Yukon Railway began on May 27, 1898 at Skagway, Alaska during the height of the great Klondike Gold Rush.Undaunted by those who said the railway could not be built a small group of devoted White Passers composed of…