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4 stories matching snowsh
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- The Avalanche That Threw a Snowplow Down the Canyon
A slide above Alvin swept a rotary snowplow and engine 200 feet down the mountainside, demolished a snowshed and bridge, and left an Italian laborer missing.
- A Wall of Flame Along the Northern Pacific
Wildfires from South Prairie to the Cascades burned Lester's postoffice and homes, threatened snowsheds, and forced railroad crews to fight the flames with locomotives and water.
- Fortifying the Mountain Pass
Great Northern Railroad crews race against time to shield the Cascade division from winter avalanches.
- Racing Against the Cascade Winter
Great Northern railroad contractors scramble to build massive timber snowsheds through the mountains before the deep snows of winter set in.