Gents
My wife and I flew up to Fairbanks in
2002, then took the Alaska RR down to Anchorage (in an ex-SP dome car I think),
and later on to Seward for our Inland Passage cruise to Vancouver, with stops at
5 or 6 Alaskan ports. Whilst my wife went whale watching, I took the
WP&Y trip and, as I say, a brilliant trip. I also found my copy of Corbin's
"Steam Locos" in a book shop in Juneau. Coincidently, the model sold in
the shops of the WP&Y diesels was made in NZ.
As regards the
Burlington connection, I have a vague memory that the Burlington had been
directly involved with a railway in Alaska (and not the Alaska RR) but
can't think of the detail at the moment. There was also a query in
2002 on this List about CB&Q/NP tour packages which included
Alaska.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:49
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Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Alaska
Rupert
does bring up a question that I?ve had but not attempted to research?.just
what was the CB&Q?s interest in Alaska?
The
name of the business car ?Aleutian? is a curious artifact of that connection
whatever it was?..or just was one of the Q officials a sportsman who hunted
there and thus named the car?
Charlie
Vlk
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