When a Deadly Winter Storm Trapped a Luxury Passenger Train Near the Donner Pass for Three Days
Source: Smithsonian
The 226 people trapped on board the City of San Francisco endured freezing temperatures, carbon monoxide poisoning and food shortages. Bettmann via Getty Images High inside locomotive 6019, engineer Tom Sapunor notched the throttle forward and squinted at the track ahead—not that he could see much of it. The blizzard that had barreled into the Sierra Nevada mountain range three days earlier had blanketed most…
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