These ten enormous blades on Rotary Snowplow #1 cleared up to 12 feet of accumulated snow. It was built by the Cooke Locomotive and Machinery Company during the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad’s inaugural year in 1898. Although it was retired and put on display next to the Skagway depot in 1965, it has been called back to service twice: the most notable occasion was when Skagway had a record snowfall of 126 inches in November of 2011.
