Description: The 1910 Wellington Disaster, Washington, Images of America, Paperback The town of Wellington was located by the Stevens Pass summit in the Cascade Mountains. During the last days of February in 1910, the snow was relentless in the Cascades, falling as much as one foot per hour and rising up to 20 feet deep in areas. Rotary plows could not keep the lines open as snow covered the railroad tracks almost immediately after being cleared. The Seattle Express, coming from Spokane, and a fast mail train were stranded just beyond the "safety" of the Cascade Tunnel, where they remained unmovable for almost a week under the snowpacked mountains. On March 1, an avalanche swept away the tracks and passengers aboard the two trains as well as several of Wellington's buildings and homes. Almost 100 individuals were killed in just a few seconds, creating America's deadliest avalanche and train disaster in history. Today, the site is part of the Iron Goat Trail off Highway 2, east of Skykomish. The snowshed, the abandoned original Cascade Tunnel, and various scraps of the trains left in the ravine are the only evidence that remain of Wellington, its long-forgotten inhabitants, or the disaster.
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781467102735
Book Title: 1910 Wellington Disaster
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: Mississippi. Deb A. Cuyle, Rodney Fletcher
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Natural Disasters, Railroads / History, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, WA)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2019
Genre: Photography, Nature, Transportation, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
