Snowsheds

The snowsheds are a permanent institution on the Intercolonial Railway. ❋ Unknown (1884)

Constant spraying with water helped keep some control of the fires in the snowsheds, but after many years all the wood had to be replaced with concrete. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

Eventually the CP built miles and miles of snowsheds; at left is a photograph taken by Albert Hart of the frame for one of them. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

A major expense, and a task that kept Clement working in the mountains for long periods in 1868, was making the snowsheds. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

Lewis Clement designed the snowsheds, which ended up covering almost fifty miles. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

Building the snowsheds was one factor, but there were many others. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

Stanford had taken out his pencil and begun estimating the cost of covering the vulnerable sections of the track with snowsheds. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

The good news from the storm was that the snowsheds already built had held up throughout the onslaught. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

One day, over lunch with Crocker, Stanford took out his pencil and began estimating the cost of covering the track with snowsheds in its most vulnerable parts. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

More than seventy miles of this line, as I remember it, are covered by snowsheds, constructed of stanch timbers along the base of the mountain in such a manner that the avalanches, which occasionally rush down from the mountain top and from the side of the mountain, strike upon the sheds and so fall harmless into the valley below, while the powerful locomotives go rushing through the snowsheds, heedless of the dangers overhead. ❋ John Sherman (N/A)

You'd better start in to-day and get some snowsheds built along the face of the workings -- they ought to have been started a week ago. ❋ Susan Morrow Jones (N/A)

He wondered how the snowplows would work, how they would break through the long, black snowsheds, now crammed with the thing which they had been built to resist. ❋ Courtney Ryley Cooper (1913)

That is [such a] [snowsh] [jacket]. ❋ Choke Slam (2010)