Near Yuba Pass in California, a snowdrift broadsided the train. As the City’s three locomotives struggled to burrow though, a second mass of snow—this ... that rescue plows were coming ...

Near Yuba Pass in California ... By Monday night, the snow had risen above the train’s windows. When all four of its rotary plows failed to break through, the chastened Southern Pacific called ...

A massive snow-fighting machine has rumbled into the California State Railroad Museum roundhouse for its annual winter visit.