White Pass & Yukon
Copper mines branch

 


This branch line, located a few miles west of Whitehorse, operated from 1910 to 1918.  Construction started in 1907, reaching Pueblo in 1910.




Cars at Pueblo


Pueblo mine


Overturned rotary
on copper branch




Mining World - Report on the mines, 1908  Part One     Two      Three        Four

Pueblo mine description, 1912


Trip account--Skagway-Pueblo-Whitehorse, 1914


Tour book, 1922




 
Copper branch
traced on Google Maps


Proposal Maps, rotated so the top of the map is approximately north

One--Junction with main line--south end

Two

Three

Four

Five--War Eagle mine--north end


Proposal Maps overlaid on Google Maps aerial photos.  

Junction

Little-Big Chief  Spur was not built

Combination of the two above

Spring Creek   Spur to Spring Creek and Empress of India was not built

Pueblo-War Eagle This segment was not built



Pueblo as built overlay