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title: A lofty spot for a trip to Skagway
description: A newly constructed, vintage-style railroad parlor car was sent to Skagway on the Alaska Marine Lines' barge.
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# A lofty spot for a trip to Skagway

 Wed, Jun 27, 2012

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![](https://info.lynden.com/hs-fs/file-26201838-jpg/images/parlor_car_on_aml_containers-resized-600.jpg)

Something old and something new is an apt description for this newly constructed parlor car perched atop [Alaska Marine Lines](http://www.aml.lynden.com/)’ containers in the Seattle yard. The cars are new but built to look like the vintage 1890s rolling stock original to the railroad when it began carrying miners from Skagway to the Klondike gold fields. It is one of three that Alaska Marine Lines barged from the Seattle dock to Skagway this spring to be used on the historic [White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad](http://www.wpyr.com/).  According to Susan Ashton, Alaska Marine Lines Account Manager in Juneau, the cars routinely make an appearance on Alaska Marine Lines barges. “These were newly built at Hamilton Manufacturing in Sedro Woolley, WA for the railroad. The White Pass Railroad also sends the older parlor cars to Hamilton for refurbishing. We have been handling the careful transport of the cars from Alaska to Washington and back for many years now.”![A newly constructed parlor car perched atop Alaska Marine Lines’ containers ](https://info.lynden.com/hs-fs/file-26201838-jpg/images/parlor_car_on_aml_containers-resized-600.jpg)

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