2nd Day Skagway

We got up early today to take a train/bus tour from Skagway, AK, to Carcross, YU.  It's actually the route we drove down yesterday, but today someone else was driving and explaining the things we were seeing.  I am going to post seven of the 44 pictures I took.  The first shows the engine of the train as we took a curve up the mountains.  Then there's one of the many glacier fed streams coming down the side of the mountain.  Some of the streams are like waterfalls.  The lakes they feed into are very deep.  The guide said one is up to 1,000 feet deep in some parts.  The streams that are formed were flowing fast because of the rain that's been falling.  Oh, it rained all morning so some of the pictures taken through the train window didn't turn out due to the rain on the window and the fog.
The third picture shows the train entering one of the two tunnels.
Then there's the "ghost" bridge.  It's a bridge that didn't get completed so it just ends.  The fog really makes it look "ghostly."
We stopped at the village of Bennett, by Lake Bennet, for a lunch of beef stew.  It was a gold rush town that started as a tent city in 1897.  A minister came and set up a church in a tent.  A year later, he got a church building built.  That's the fifth picture.  We could hike up to it for a closer look, but with the rain and the trail was filled with water, Barry & I chose to stay on the train.
We went on the train to Carcross and then got on a bus for the trip back down the mountains.  On the ride down, we stopped at Emerald Lake.  It's called that because of the green tint created by the glacier silt that the streams bring down.
The last picture was an other glacier waterfall/stream.  This one is special because it is on the Continental Divide.
We met a couple from south Texas that have been traveling since June 11.  They are going on to Fairbanks and Denali National Forest.  They are driving a pickup.  Then there was a family with four children ranging in age from 11 to 2.  The three old kids, when asked if they would be quiet while the guide talked, responded with a resounding "NO!"  And they weren't quiet.  'Course it was a hard trip for the kids to be quiet as it was a total of 8 hours.  That's a long time for anyone to set and be quiet.  The guides did a good job of staying on track despite the interruptions and we were able to hear what they had to say.  Most everyone was patient with the family.
I will probably be late with the blog tomorrow as we take the ferry to Juneau at 3:00 p.m. and don't arrive until 9:30 p.m.  That's 12:30 p.m. Nebraska time.
Here's the pictures: