Day 1: Wednesday
Day 2: Thursday
Day 3: Friday
Day 4: Saturday
Day 5: Sunday
Day 6: Monday
Day 7: Tuesday
The Aftermath
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DAY 2
Thursday, February 24, 1910
7:45 p.m.
After a lull, snow resumes and passengers describe a "steep walls of white" around the trains. The Seattle Express finally succeeds in leaving Cascade area, making it to Wellington station where they bed down. The Fast Mail arrives at 10:15pm.
A rotary snowplow and its crew. Pushed by one or two trailing locomotives, rotaries were the state-of-the-art snow-fighting machines of their day. Under normal winter conditions, a fleet of six could usually keep even the GN's notoriously snowy Cascade crossing open to traffic. (Courtesy of the Robert Kelly Collection)
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