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 4
Saturday, February 26, 1910
Afternoon
Repeated slides between Wellington and the next station, near Windy Point, keep the rotaries busy. Workers hired to shovel out the trains begin to walk off the job, disgruntled at their hourly wage of 15 cents.
In the afternoon, the snow turns to a driving rain—avalanche weather.
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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