In addition, Hicks purchased four Jackson & Sharp Co. narrow gauge coaches from the Ulster & Delaware R.R. between August 1899 & June 1900 and resold them to the White Pass and Yukon Route in May 1901 (WP&YR ##218, 220, 222, and 224).
His maternal great-grandfather, Patrick Flynn, came to Alaska at the turn of the 20th century to help build and work on the White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway, Alaska to the Yukon Territory.
White House | Chicago White Sox | White | Snow White | The White Stripes | Yukon | White American | white | black-and-white | Whitehorse, Yukon | U.S. Route 66 | White Star Line | U.S. Route 1 | White Nile | Jack White | Jack White (musician) | Betty White | U.S. Route 6 | U.S. Route 101 | White Collar (TV series) | White Collar | Route 66 | Byron White | Yukon River | White movement | U.S. Route 30 | New Jersey Route 4 | Great White | European route E65 | White Sea |
Michael James Heney, a railroad contractor of international renown, best known for his work on the first two railroads built in Alaska, the White Pass and Yukon Route and the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, was born in Stonecliffe.
The White Pass and Yukon Route railway acquired the world's first container ship, the Clifford J. Rogers, built in 1955, and introduced containers to its railway in 1956.
Tweetsie acquired another coal-fired steam locomotive, USATC S118 Class 2-8-2 #190, the “Yukon Queen” from Alaska’s White Pass and Yukon Route in 1960.