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sion Hills, Mission, B.C., Canada V2V 7P8. Softcover, 112 8½″×11″ pages; $16.95. Certainly there are larger and better known railroads than the trio covered in this book. Their routes in the Yukon and service lives were short, their motive power and rolling stock modest, and their impact on the wild, isolated region they served was less than dramatic. Still, the little three-foot gauge railways that were
built to serve coal mines on Cliff Creek and Coal Creek and a gold mine on Bear Creek, are the type of simple industrial railways that often attract the attention of local historians and modelers. The three mining railways came about as a result of the Klondike Gold Rush, which in the late 1890’s brought thousands of men north into the Cana- dian wilderness to seek their fortunes. As the region grew, so did the need for hauling materials. The discovery of coal deposits, which brought with them the promise of cheaper fuel to run boilers and heat homes, necessitated rail lines to bring the coal from the mines to the riverbank, where it could be loaded onto Yukon River steamers for the trip to Dawson. The three railroads used a total of seven Porter saddletank loco- motives, two 0-6-0T’s and five 0-4-0T’s (six of which, remarkably, still exist in varying conditions ranging from heavi- ly vandalized to operational), a two- truck Shay (scrapped in 1940), an as- sortment of four-wheel coal wagons and dump cars, and some flat cars. Unfortunately for the investors, none of these lines lasted long. Two decades after the first rails of the North Ameri- can Transportation and Trading Com- pany’s line along Cliff Creek were pol- ished by one of the Porters in 1899, operations on all three lines had come to an end. The relatively poor quality of the
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