W/NW 2022 Pic-O'-The-Week #23

Welcome everyone to Week 23 of 2022, the Leica and Rangefinders W/NW Thread! Here’s a scene looking back on the White Pass Yukon Route train, northern British Columbia.

 

 

Leica M8, 35mm f/3.5 Leitz Summaron LTM + Adapter

 

 

 

Leica M10-P

50mm Asph Summilux-M (1, 2, 3)

CV 75mm Heliar Classic f/1.8 (4)

This is the train from Skagway into the White Horse Pass in Alaska. Before the train, it was often called the Dead Horse Trail. Being one of the main routes from Alaska into the Klondike and up through Dawson, BC, the miners, many form the cities looking to strike it rich, would buy horses to carry in the large amounts of stores to sustain them in the gold fields. They had little knowledge or thought for the plight of the horses, so the horses were worked to death and died in droves apparently. Or at least that was the story the train guide told us:)

 

It's a really fun and beautiful ride up into the hills if you ever up that way.

Interesting, Wikipedia does call it "White Pass", but the railroad guide called it White Horse Pass and told us the story re dead horses. Allan, did they talk about the "Dead Horse Pass" on your trip?

London (1975)

Leica M3. Summicron DR 5 (50 mm). Tri-X 400

Interesting, Wikipedia does call it "White Pass", but the railroad guide called it White Horse Pass and told us the story re dead horses. Allan, did they talk about the "Dead Horse Pass" on your trip?

Thanks. I remember, many decades ago, being in Barriere, Canada. Brings back memories. The story goes, as dead horses do, that a couple were travelling there, in a wagon. He kept urging the horse on until it expired. She said, what are we going to do now. He replied: bury her.

 

My shots, aged like me. Keep safe. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1):

 

 

Always feel a bit guilty, if I have not posted a photo, on the Leica forum.

 

So.

 

M246 Monochrome and 28mm f2.8 Elmarit-M ASPH.

 

 

and 90mm f2 Canadian pre-ASPH Summicrom-M.

 

Always feel a bit guilty, if I have not posted a photo, on the Leica forum.

 

So.

 

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Never feel guilty, Allen Herbert. That is a tremendous shot - so much character captured there. No doubt there is a story there. But if you want to feel guilty, don't tell us the story. Really well done. I am remiss, and plead my own guilt - I've plundered your image. It deserves framing. Regards Arthur (apiarist1)

Edited June 13, 2022 by arthur_mcculloch|2

Allen Herbert, the time limit passed me out. Went over that shot a few times. I'd give my eye teeth for such clarity. Bravo.

Canon 50mm f 1.8 on Canon VL2 Leica Thread Mount (100% crop)

Edited June 13, 2022 by JDMvW

Interesting, Wikipedia does call it "White Pass", but the railroad guide called it White Horse Pass and told us the story re dead horses. Allan, did they talk about the "Dead Horse Pass" on your trip?

 

Hi Barry, I just now finally found the literature they gave us for the train trip; I'm in the process of unpacking after a move and it was in a box. It's definitely labeled the "White Pass & Yukon Route." (I left out the "&" in my original post.) Unfortunately there was no mention of the term "Dead Horse Pass," although it was noted that prior to the railway construction, over 3000 horses died because of the "tortures of the trail and the inexperience of the stampeders."

Edited June 16, 2022 by allancobb