In 1910, a serious forest fire burned much of the remaining major bridges and snow sheds.
A number of snow sheds and earth dams are used to protect the Rogers Pass highway from avalanches.
Extensive snow sheds were built to shelter the rails from frequent avalanches.
When completed, it had dozens of snow sheds along its route, which approached a 4% grade in many places.
In the same month, the Great Northern Railway began construction of concrete snow sheds to shelter the nearby tracks.
Finally, along transportation corridors, large shelters, called snow sheds, can be built directly in the slide path of an avalanche to protect traffic from avalanches.
A variant of the SD40-2 was created for several western railroads for extended periods in tunnels and snow sheds.
Direct protection of important objects and structures, e.g., by snow sheds (avalanche sheds).
In response, 31 snow sheds were built, with a total length of about 6.5 km.
Southern Pacific had a number of snow sheds in mountain terrain, and locomotive crews nearly asphyxiated from smoke in the cab.