“Cold, cold, cold!” Harry shivered one morning as he arranged a freight train. “I’m freezing my frames off out here!”
“You’d think our fires would keep us warm,” Gilbert said through chattering teeth, “but it doesn’t do much good in this weather!” It was January of 1939, the height of one of the coldest winters Golden Valley Railroad had ever experienced! Temperatures hovered around zero for weeks on end. The warmest it had gotten that month was ten degrees and the locomotives were feeling the effects of the extreme cold. It hadn’t snowed in weeks, but a thick co