With 450 tons of dynamite, the White Pass & Yukon Route was built in 26 months for 10 million dollars. Michael J. Heney, an experienced railroad contractor, bragged, " Give me enough dynamite and snoose and I'll build you a railroad to Hell." Two of the workers who died during the railroad's construction were covered in blasted rock...

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