The ship docked in Skagway at 6:00 AM. Looking out our Starboard balcony I saw that we were moored directly to the dock without a gang plank. I imagined that you could jump from a balcony rail on deck five directly to the dock in case of an emergency. I also noticed that debris from two rockslides had spilled onto areas of the dock and over sections of the White Pass Rails. Coaches were still able to run along cleared stretches of the dock but this area was clearly a construction zone at the bottom of a major engineering project. Safety and comfort comes first and foremost to Princess Cruise passengers so a small leap for Chris became a large logistical entanglement to get ashore via tender boats. The morning leaflets at our cabin door provided details for disembarkment but I scoped out the operation hours before to make sure we could make it to the White Pass Railway for our prepaid train tour. I even talked directly with security at the front of the line on Deck Four about the procedure. I returned to our cabin and we went up to the World fresh Marketplace on Deck 16 for breakfast. The humpback whales were putting on quite a show as we ate. After breakfast, we arrived at the assigned tender boat queue in what I thought was ample time we were told by attendants that the wait times were over an hour and we would miss our train tour. A visit to Client Services reassured us that we could go the the front of the line at the elevators on Deck Five. That elevator area was crowded with cattle and that wasn’t happening. The stairs to Deck Four were also roped off. We were able to skirt around to another staircase and get to Deck Four just in time to get ashore. The scenery on the 40 mile train ride was wonderful and changed greatly as we ascended from tidewater to the snowy summit at 2,865 feet. We went over several trestles and through two tunnels along the way. I would have posted more pictures but a selfish Photo Hog in front of me obscured most opportunities for me and to the frustration of several other fellow photographers by my side.