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Caption: Marker detail: Early 20th Century Trains
Additional Description: (top) Rotary snow plows helped trains through the heavy snows and avalanches of the Cascade winters. Photo about 1910. [Courtesy Burlington Northern Railroad]
(bottom) Beginning in 1909, electric engines were used to take trains through the tunnel because of trapped fumes from the steam locomotives. [Photo by James A. Turner, 1925, east portal Old Cascade Tunnel, Warren W. Wing Collection]
Submitted: September 17, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p539115
File Size: 0.752 Megabytes

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