How would you like to fall bare-bottomed from the sky onto this mountain? I took this postcard-perfect shot from the outside edge of our boxcar.

From a distance, it looked as though the train was going to use this tressel with us aboard. We were glad to hear that the railroad stopped using the all-wood tressel in 1969. I wonder what was used to treat the lumber. Alaska is well-known for its hostile climate. It seems it would have made more sense to use steel and concrete. Notice the steel tressel on the right of the photo. I took the picture of the wooden tressel from the steel tressel.

When the railroad used this tressel, it must have been a miracle each time a train passed over without incident. I wonder how many passengers fainted when they realized there were so high in the air and suspended only by wood.

Here’s a shot of the far end of the tressel from the tressel’s other side.

When we returned to the pier, I took this photo of Radiance’s glass elevator shaft (port side). There’s another shaft just like this one on the starboard side. Radiance has eight glass elevators that lean out over the sea—or, in this case, the pier. The glass was kept fairly clean during our voyage, affording us a spectacular view when we used the elevators. Radiance also has four interior glass elevators that offered views of her grand atrium.