In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit the Northwest. High in the Cascade Mountains, near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars marooned, buried in rising drifts on the edge of a steep ravine. Days later, with the effort to rescue the trains continuing, a colossal avalance tumbled down, sweeping the trains over the steep slope and down the mountainside

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Author's note Maps Prologue: A late thaw Railroad through the mountains Long straw Last mountains Temporary delay Over the hump Town at the end of the world First loss Closing doors Empire builder looks on Ways of escape Last chances Avalanche "Reddened snow " Inquest Act of God Epilogue: A memory erased Afterword: A final note on the Wellington avalanche Appendix: A Wellington roster