Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — Keeping Tracks Clear of Snow. [ARTICLE]

Keeping Tracks Clear of Snow.

An apparatus to keep snow from drifting on the railroad track has been invented by a Minnesota physician, who lost a patient last year because form of snow fence, consisting of a number of transverse planks so ~ ar- , ranged as to deflect air currents close to the ground, thus causing the wind to sweep low through the railroad cut, cleaning the track of snow instead of piling It in a drift across the track. A few sections of this, fence erected at : points where drifts occur cost far le«p» than the delay of a single snowbound train, and a number of demonstrations have proved the practicability of the invention. |