Cruise company buys White Pass & Yukon railway

摘要

Cruise holiday company Carnival Corp has agreed to acquire the White Pass & Yukon Route railway, port and retail operations from Canadian golf club company TWC Enterprises Ltd for US$290m. Built during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, closed in 1982 and revived in 1988 as a tourist service, the 914 mm gauge Class Ⅱ White Pass 8c Yukon railway runs 110 km from Skag-way, Alaska, through British Columbia to Carcross, Yukon.