Winter Wonderland: As fog hangs above the Clark Fork River valley, a westbound manifest thunders out of the west siding switch Toole, kicking up the dry powder along the bank of the river.
With the temperature close to zero, Amtrak train no. 6, the California Zephyr descends the grade at Big Ten Curve with the Denver Metro area in the background.
The sound of an approaching westbound train could be heard for several minutes coming down the valley out of the Cabinet Gorge, until at last the Centralia-bound unit coal train came roaring out o... (more)