While traversing the Sierra Nevada, he made a reference to observing the snow sheds at Donner Pass and the struggle of the pioneering members of the Donner Party.
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When the railway first went over the pass, 31 snow sheds with a total length of about 6.5 km were built to protect the railway from the avalanches.
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When this was only partially successful, an extensive process of building snow sheds over some of the track was instituted to protect it from deep snows and avalanches.
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He had more than of snow sheds built to cover the tracks in the Sierra Nevada mountains, to prevent the tracks from getting covered with snow in the winter.
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A snow shed, constructed in 1950 when the road was known as US-10, formerly covered the westbound lanes, but it has been replaced by'avalanche bridges', as of April 2014.
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Before Brinson was born, his father, Albert, worked for a railroad company in Washington State, living in a boxcar while building snow sheds to house coal being shipped to Seattle.
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Sometime in the seven years between when the line was abandoned and when the tracks were removed, a mysterious fire destroyed several snow sheds near the summit as well as the hotel at Corona Station.
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Vista points on Interstate 80 through California's Truckee Canyon provide a panoramic view of many miles of the original Central Pacific line and of the snow sheds which made winter train travel safe and practical.
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The next order for the type was from the Southern Pacific; these differed in being cab forward locomotives, so that the crew could have better visibility and breathing in the SP's long tunnels and snow sheds.
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At Cumbres ( MP 330.48 ), elevation, is the Car Inspector's House, Water Standpipe, remnants of the extensive snow shed, and the Section House, which replaced the original depot after it was demolished in the 1950s.
