The 1910 Wellington Train Disaster

Washington Our Home
March 1, 2021
Disasters, Ghost Towns, Hikes, History, Railroad, Western Washington
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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. They’d been stuck near Wellington in King County, Washington, for almost a week…waiting as railroad crews attempted to clear the tracks of snow, which had been accumulating

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