Drive 60 miles east from Everett, Washington, on U.S. Highway 2 and you'll reach the treacherous Stevens Pass in the magnificent Cascades. While the mountain road is known for heavy snowfall and ...

The Cascade Mountains are full of stories. Some harrowing, some tragic. This story has a bit of both. The Iron Goat Trail winds along the Great Northern Railway grade and remnants of the original ...

The once-infamous catastrophe in this state -- an epic of life and death and railroading in the Cascades -- has awaited its worthy book for almost a century. The surprise is that the 1910 Wellington ...

The invention of the locomotive in the early 19th century permanently altered human history, giving people of all income levels the ability to travel long distances in a short amount of time. Trains ...

March 1 marks the date of the deadliest avalanche in the history of the United States: the Wellington avalanche near Stevens Pass in 1910. In the final days of February, the weather dumped a lot of ...

Tunnels may not be glamorous, but there are few things more satisfying than honking your car’s horn when driving in a tunnel bored through a mountain. The urge to test the acoustics of a car horn in a ...