(Source: Seattle Times, February 22, 2018)
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A train workers’ union told a harrowing tale Thursday about ascending Stampede Pass in a blizzard, where a train broke apart, and a locomotive engineer spent 10 hours stranded inside the tunnel. The conductor made six trips through waist-deep snow in the dark and through the exhaust-filled tunnel to help reconnect railcars, then left to make radio calls, according to a union report.
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