Freight Cars-White Pass & Yukon Route

White Pass & Yukon Route

Freight Cars

Updated December-09-2002

Stock Cars

Stock Car 741 with a load of barrels

Stock Car 955

Stock Car Diagram

Flat Cars

Ex-C&S US Army flat cars on each end of WP&YR flat car R1 during WWII

Flat Car R1

The drawing for a standard flat car was used with only the numbers changed.

Flat Car R1 made from a tender underframe

Container cars and container unloading stands were converted for standard 20 foot containers during the last years of freight operation.

The standard freight container was 25ft. 3in. long and sat on the cones farthest back, originally at deck level. The nearest cones are for the long ore containers. The car was adapted to common 20 ft. containers by raising the original freight container cones and adding the angles in between the 2 sets of cones to hold the corners of the 20 ft. containers.

Container flat car adapted for 20 ft. containers

Container unloading stand adapted for 20 ft. containers by adding the intermediate set of legs-Whitehorse

Some long-gone equipment

45 Ton Bucyrus Shovel

Photo needed, WP&YR or

other owners of this model

70 Ton Bucyrus Shovel

WP&YR 70 Ton Bucyrus Shovel.

Additional photos needed,

WP&YR or other owners of this model

Derrick

Photos needed

Pile Driver

Photos needed

The US Army brought 2 cabooses from the Sumpter Valley During WWII. The WP&Y used SV #4 as WP&Y #911 after the war.

Three photos of Sumpter Valley caboose body in Oregon. I was told it was returned from Skagway, which probably means it is SV #4, USA # 911, WP&YR # 911

Sumpter Valley #3, USA #909, burned 1945.

Sumpter Valley #3 pLan

Crane X-8 was build from a crawler crane

Crane X-8

Remains of crane X-8

The other end of X-8

Some of the trucks in use on freight cars

ASF Estado truck

ASF Estado truck

Archbar truck

Barber roller bearing truck

The US Army brought boxcars from Colorado and also some export models. Later the WP&Y bought surplus boxcar frames from the Navy in Hawaii.

The center flat car in foreground at Skagway wharf is an ex-military boxcar without the box.

Army boxcars from Colorado on the White Pass docks in WWII.

A note on their color

Hawaiian boxcar underframe being unloaded at Skagway.

WWII Army boxcar--More photos needed.

This export boxcar was built for South America to the same plan as the Army boxcars on the White Pass. The Army boxcars were diverted from a South American order.

One USA ex-Colorado boxcar and 2 export style boxcars between a 190 class locomotive and a 250 class (K28) locomotive.

After WWII equipment was brought back to Auburn, Washington for storage, sale, or scrapping.

Surplus Army boxcars from WP&Y stored in Auburn, Washington, 3-29-46

Closeup of export-style boxcar

Closeup of ex-C&S boxcars and caboose conversions

The first WP&Y containers were nearly cubical. Later ones were 25 feet 3 inches long.

Early style container

Late style heated, insulated container.

Late style heated, insulated container.

Many ex-WP&Y boxcars and reefers are now in the back yards of Skagway.

Reefer with no trucks.

Boxcar with no trucks,original paint scheme.

Boxcar with one truck.

The earlier ore containers were long and were carried one on a flat car.

Ore container loader near Whitehorse

The later model short ore containers were carried 2 on a flat car

Short ore container

Short ore container

Front

Rear

Hopper and ballast cars

#850-855, (later 650-651) when new, before delivery to Granby Consolidated Smelting at Anyox, BC in 1915, then to WP&YR in 1940.

In service on WP&Y