Talk:White Pass and Yukon Route

message: Inconsistant use of abbreviations of distances are noted. Suggest either spell it out in numerals or letters but not both.
As for Horsepower, this appears to be metric conversion for the sake of conversion. North American practice uses "horsepower" and as far as I am aware so does European practice. So, suggest eliminating metric rating.
R.L.Kennedy 29 June 2005 19:27 (UTC)
:Nah nah, the use of kilowatt (kW) is now European practice, besides the European or metric horsepower differs somewhat from its imperial counterpart. See Horsepower#Definition and Horsepower#Metric horsepower
: Peter Horn 02:25, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Metric

message: White Pass has enjoyed a history too free from scrutiny. There are many interesting items which deserve mention here, and so I'll put some points in the talk page as a place-holder for future edits I intend to do;
* Mention White Pass oil spills in Skagway.
* Mention federal charges against two of White Pass' officials (and resulting jail time for one, which he was promoted by the company for.)
* Mention death of WP officials.
* Mention the collapsed Railroad Dock in Skagway, and the resulting death of a worker in the debris.
* Mention why they had to shut down their oil pipeline (pipeline too close to passenger-carrying rail.)
* Mention problems Carcross residents had with WP business tactics (Old Train Depot, Riverboat Warehouse.) Include unsuccessful attempts to take over successful business by refusing to renew lease terms.
* Mention ecological clean-ups in the Carcross area of creosote-polluted land and water.
* Mention of railway abandonment (or lack thereof) for section between the ghost-town Bennett City and Whitehorse, and why YTG granted White Pass a second lease (for promotion o/ tourism.)
* Discussion of decline of fuel/freight company into pure tourism (although this is mostly covered already.)
* Mention White Pass oil barrels washing up on Carcross beaches. Kothog 18:04, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Miscellany 

message: The route map is not accurate.  Whitehorse is in the wrong location!  It's up along the Yukon River about a bearing of 300 degrees from the end of Marsh Lake, with a nearly straight rail line north from Carcross on a bearing of about 340 degrees or so. I don't know how to edit that map!  It definitely does not curve to the west and end in the mountains! GBC 15:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: GBC is absolutely right. I wish I could edit that map & I would not hesitate a second to do so.
Peter Horn 01:30, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I put in a revised map. I left the old one there, because I have no idea if the old map is protected by some kind of copyright that renders my revision illegal. If it is an illegal revision, it can be deleted from the article and from the Wikipedia database without have to reinsert the original. The revision also shows the Alaska and Klondike Highways which are adjacent to the railroad. I did the edits using the rudimentary "Paint" program that came with my computer. GBC 23:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Map

message: 450 tons of explosives. Were that long or short tons?
Peter Horn 01:30, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[White Pass and Yukon Route#Construction]]

message: It could have been Iraq instead of Iran. The former has metre gauge track from Baghdad to Basra.
Peter Horn 02:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[White Pass and Yukon Route#World War II]]

message: I am having difficulty believing the recent additions that several of the steam engines were sold to Dollywood based on dates. The engines noted were sold in the 1960s but Dollywood opened in 1986. Soapy (talk) 20:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steam engines sold to Dollywood? 

message: There is a problem with the dates for locomotive #72.  The latest edit indicates the locomotive was damaged by fire four years before it was built.  Can someone check the build date and/or the date of fire damage?  (or maybe the fire damaged a different locomotive?)  Thewellman (talk) 00:29, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locomotive # 72 build date and damage by fire 

message: And on the subject of locomotive retirement dates vs disposition dates.....I knew a fellow who worked on the ALCAN highway.  He told me a number of the locomotives used to transport highway construction materials were damaged by firemen and engineers inexperienced with cold weather operation.  He claimed some locomotive castings were broken by freezing water.  Can anyone find a written source to confirm this?  The large number of nearly new locomotives scrapped or retired after a single year of operation seems unusual; although it could be an example of typical wastage of military supplies when the job is over.    Thewellman (talk) 01:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frozen Locomotives??? 

message: It seems strange to me that locomotives 101-110 all have sequential serial numbers, but while # 103 is described as "ALCO Model Series C-14", the remainder of the series is described as "MLW-Worthington Model Series C-14", all are listed as MLW production, but only this one has the ALCO description. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 14:16, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: per this reference[], I am updating the information on this loco to match the others in its batch. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 16:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diesel locomotive 103 

message: Could the contributor who deleted the telephone directory cover please comment on my talk page?  It had been suggested that I delete the image from Wikipedia as it was no longer in an article.  Perhaps among the three of us, we can resolve whether it can be used.
I had not scanned the phonebook cover using my scanner, merely taken a photograph of it, to limit its resolution quality.  It has been 28.7 years (May 1, 1982) since it was published... what is the copyright period on photographs? GBC (talk) 15:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Northwestel directory cover 

message: In White Pass and Yukon Route#Operations before World War II, can some one reduce the width of the ? Peter Horn User talk 15:03, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Collapsed and hidden. FairFare (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 19:45, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reduce the width