The Army Transportation Corps even supplied stevedores in the form of the 375th Port Battalion who unloaded cargo from the ships and barges in Skagway harbor and loaded it on trains that would carry it the 93rd, 340th and 18th engineers.
Unloading ships meant jumping into the holds and assembling materiel into loads for crane operators to hoist out and onto waiting railroad cars. Skagway harbor offered daily tides that changed sea level by as much as 30 feet – making it, arguably, one of the world’s most difficult harbors.
