And then there was this one.
http://cprr.org/Museum/Stranded_Streamliner_1952/index.html
“The Case of the Stranded Streamliner”
The rescue of SP’s snowbound “City of San Francisco”at Yuba Pass, January 13-19, 1952.
Thank you for sharing that very interesting story. It completely absorbed my attention!!! What came to mind as I was reading it was the devotion to life and limb shown by the rail road employees. A stark contrast to the current Amtrak story that stated the workers could not perform their duties past a certain amount of hours. So what did they do? Sleep?
Great link. The freight train behind the amtrac did indeed derail and a road will have to be built to it to offload cargo etc. Those mountain passes can be very dangerous. The porter on the amtrac told my wife that some of the line goes through areas where derailing would send the train off the edge of some very high cliffs into the valley far below.
That was quite an adventure, thanks for posting it.