Imagine such a glorious death. This is up there with being vaporised in a space-shuttle or rocket explosion. This is the Aryan Indo-European spirit manifest. White-knuckle speed at the limits of human endurance.
In January 1952, a major blizzard hit the Sierra Nevada. A Southern Pacific Railroad passenger train, The City of San Francisco, became stuck due to a combination of drifting snow and a snow slide. The train was halted near the Donner Pass for a stretch of three days. Photos are original, not colorized.