Whitehorse Trolley Project Pushed Ahead

Yukon tourists may be taking a trolley ride along the Whitehorse waterfront as early as next summer. The Yukon government's last minute purchase of a trolley car has pushed the project ahead...and saved a lot of money.

Aided by a crane, workers gingerly lift the 1925 trolley car off a flat-bed truck and onto a few feet of track on the waterfront.

It was a stroke of luck for the territory to find the little trolley.

The government planned to have one built...but just before Christmas they found one for sale, at a bargain price.

Today, the trolley arrived by truck from a museum in Duluth Minnesota.

Government Services Minister, Dave Sloan, says the money saved on the trolley will be enough to pay for the whole water front rail project.

"This trolley's actually only about one fifth of what I had actually allocated for it. We've now gone bakc and said we feel we'll be able to complete the project for just the cost of what the trolley was"

Sloan set aside 750-thousand dollars for the car.

That leaves 600-thousand to paint the old trolley, repair the tracks, and build two small stations.

Tourists should be able to take the trolley from the McBride museum to rotary park by this summer.