snow shed

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See also: snowshed and snow-shed

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Etymology

A 20th-century painting by Howard L. Fogg of a Denver and Salt Lake Railway passenger train exiting a snow shed at the top of Rollins Pass, Colorado, USA.

From snow +‎ shed.

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snow shed (plural snow sheds)

  1. (rail transport, road transport) A tunnel-like structure that provides roads and railroad tracks with protection from avalanches and heavy snowfalls that cannot be easily removed.
    Synonyms: avalanche gallery, snow bridge
    • 1950 October, “The Why and the Wherefore: Snow Shed, West Highland Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 719:
      The only snow shed in Great Britain is on the West Highland Railway, about 2 miles north of Rannoch Station. It is some 200 yd. long, and is situated in the deepest part of Cruach cutting, which is subject to heavy drifting during winter snowstorms.

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