snow shoes

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There are thirty immense snowsheds on this section of the railroad.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by Lyman, William Denison

The train crept over spidery bridges, spanning waterdrops, and crawled for miles beneath ranges of big timber snowsheds.

From Westward with the Prince of Wales by Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)

It was all a grand crescendo of magnificence, until the snowsheds, erected over the tracks, shut out the splendor of the scenery from our view.

From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)

Railroads whose tracks run through the regions of heaviest snowfall build snowsheds to keep their lines from being buried in avalanches, and these sheds are built to withstand pressures calculated by the Weather Bureau.

From The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

The Southern Pacific Railway, which intersects this region, has built 32 miles of snowsheds, at a cost of $42,000 a mile over single track and $65,000 a mile over double track.

From The Mentor: The Weather Serial Number 110; 1 July, 1916 by Talman, Charles Fitzhugh