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a great single source, if you can find it, is "the central pacific and southern pacific railroads" by lucius beebe has descriptions and pictures of snowsheds traversing the sierra nevada mountains. the first ones had pitched roofs which accumulated snow on both sides, causing the packed snow on the mountain side to ease them off the cliffs, the next winter, they went with a shed roof design. these held up to the snow much better and the new problem was fire from the burning cinders inside the wooden structures. modeling a fire train will naturally go along with these. a great fire burned them in 1961, and those that got replaced appear to be concrete from what i see from the highway and at the summit tunnel. the topography that made this the "easiest" transsierra route, also dumped more snow on donner pass than anywhere else in this world.
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