Willow Creek Slide

A spectacular avalanche on Feb. 10, 1903, swept away part of a trestle—300 feet high—that had let Northern Pacific Railway trains descend from this pass since 1890. An engine that plunged 80 feet was buried in 30 feet of snow, a passenger car dangled over open space, and a caboose with 8 people dropped into a deep snowbank. Miraculously, everyone aboard survived that terror-stricken trip, but a new, less hazardous route replaced the trestle route.

Idaho · United States