Jan 26, 2003 · During the early morning hours of March 1, 1910, an avalanche roars down Windy Mountain near Stevens Pass in the Cascade Mountains, taking with it two Great Northern trains and 96 victims. This is one of the worst train disasters in U.S. history and the worst natural disaster (with the greatest number of fatalities) in Washington.

Feb 28, 2010 · In 1910, a destroyed train and other debris from an avalanche rocked the railroad town of Wellington, Wash., the scene of the worst avalanche disaster in U.S. history, when two passenger trains...

Nov 13, 2009 · Two trains are swept into a canyon by an avalanche in Wellington, Washington, on March 1, 1910, killing 96 people. Due to the remote location of the disaster and the risk of further avalanches,...

Jul 5, 2007 · At 3:44 a.m. on June 6, 1969, a speeding freight train, later found to be traveling 63 m.p.h., rams a caboose and three freight cars sitting on the main track in front of the Marysville Great Northern Depot.

Jan 20, 2014 · On January 22, 1916, eight passengers are killed when an avalanche sweeps down Windy Mountain in the Cascades and strikes a westbound Great Northern passenger train, shoving two rail cars over an 80-foot embankment.

The Michigan train wreck was the worst rail disaster in both North Dakota and Great Northern Railway history. [2] It happened on August 9, 1945, at Michigan, North Dakota, and involved Great Northern's premier train, the Empire Builder.

Oct 24, 2024 · In the quiet stillness of the early morning of June 6, 1969, the sleepy town of Marysville was violently awakened by the deafening roar of a catastrophic crash that would forever haunt the otherwise peaceful coastal city.

Oct 2, 2020 · Shortly before 4am on June 6, 1969, a Great Northern train roared into Marysville. Without slowing down to the posted speed, it slammed into several standing freight cars and the train depot before derailing.

Mar 1, 2021 · Just after one o’clock in the morning, on a frigid, starless night in March 1910, more than a hundred souls aboard Great Northern Railway’s Spokane Local No. 25, a passenger train, and Fast Mail Train No. 27 slept tightly bundled in their cars.

Jul 2, 2024 · Train No. 27, Great Northern's westbound mail truck, found themselves on the wrong side of that equation when an avalanche caught them on Monday, March 4, 1929. The train was descending a steep grade near Slingshot about 60 miles from Whitefish when they stopped to investigate a small avalanche blockage on the tracks ahead of them.