The Cassowary

The train charges the mountain of snow like a bull, then stops dead. In the blizzard’s white roar, its whistle dwindles from protest to a sob.

At midnight, in the Cleft Mountains west of Pike’s Peak, a transcontinental train lies trapped beneath a drift Nature is still building. The crew has the tools to call for help—but no one who can work the telegraph. John Stafford, a civil engineer accustomed to hard country, volunteers to find the line through snow so deep it swallows him to the neck. He reaches a pole and sends word to Belden; then the storm erases his tracks, and the train’s beacon disappears behind the white. The message is sent, but can Stafford find his way back before the blizzard takes its price?

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