Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1913 — Obviating Snowbound Trials. [ARTICLE]

Obviating Snowbound Trials.

It is a well known principle of snowshed construction that the roof of the shed should be built at the same angle as the mountain side so as to offer no resistance to the snow, but instead allow the great mass of deadly white to slide down the mountain side and over the roof of the shed to the other side of the track. The concrete shed is riveted into the rock of the mountain and built with such a sloping roof that It looks like a part of the mountain itself. This new kind of snowshed cost $300,000 and over 400 men were employed In building It. It is 20 feet higfy on the average and over 3,000 4,000 — feet long. The roof is ten inches thick and bo heavy that it Is supported by concrete pillars.