This 30’ flat car is painted black with white logo and lettering. It was built in May 1969 by National Steel Car of Hamilton, Ontario, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. These particular flat cars are used to carry freight containers, allowing cargo to be transported by ship, rail or truck without the requiring repacking of the cargo. White Pass owned a container ship and began utilizing container transport as early as 1956. The White Pass and Yukon Route is a Canadian and U.S. Class II narrow gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, capital of Canada’s Yukon Territory.

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