This beautifully appointed executive suite on rails is the centerpiece of the West Yellowstone Conference Hotel. For the next 32 years, the car traveled back and forth across the country carrying Union Pacific bigwigs and other dignitaries. In 1935, after the car's last trip to West Yellowstone, the Oregon Shortline 1903 was retired and set on a concrete foundation three blocks from where it now sits. The old railroad car changed hands many times before ending up in the care of Clyde seely, one of the owners of today's Yellowstone Conference Hotel. To get to this museum on wheels, you must go inside the hotel.
Admission is free.
Quake Lake Visitors Center U.S. Hwy. Hebgen Lake tilted north, houses and chunks of highway dropped into the river. Cars were washed away, and so were unsuspecting campers asleep in their beds. Twenty-eight men, women and children died that night, and many others were trapped between the slide that blocked the rising river and the missing sections of road behind them. Rescuers worked through the day to save the stranded survivors.