White Pass & Yukon Route

Freight Cars
Stock Cars

Stock Car 741 with a load of barrels

Stock Car 955

Stock Car Diagram




Flat Cars


Wood flat car


Short 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



Depressed Center Flat Cars
Box cars
Reefers

 
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.


Tank cars

Tank 1 and 5 diagram

Tank 5 at Skagway

Tank cars 2 and 4-no diagram or photo. Do you have one?

Tank cars 3 and 6 diagram

Tank car 3 at Bennett

Tank car 6 at Carcross

Tank cars 7, 9, and 11 diagram

7, 9 or 11 at Whitehorse, WWII era

Tank 11 at Whitehorse after dome change

Tank cars 8 and 10 diagram

Tank 10 on flat car

WP&Y bought some standard guage tank cars and put them on narrow gauge trucks.

 

Ex-standard gauge car on narrow gauge trucks

Tank 69 again

A big one's end and tank 39

Tank 71



WWII and later freight cars

The US Army brought boxcars from Colorado & Southern and also some export models.  After WWII, some were purchased or exchanged by WP&Y.

Later the WP&Y bought surplus boxcar frames from  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



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



Depressed Center Flat Cars

Freight Containers

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.




Ore containers


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





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





Trucks

ASF Estado truck

ASF Estado truck

Archbar truck

Barber roller bearing truck