Snow sheds

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know where I can find a drawing or close up picture of he concrete snow sheds?

Ira

[Anonymous]

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.

[trainnut57]

For HO scale, I used a piece of 1/8" thick sandwhich board that I purchased at Michael's Craft store, cut 1/8 to 1/16 by 1 to 2 inch slits at a standard distance from near the top to towards the bottom. I made them just slightly higher than my tallest car. I got the idea after traveling thorough the snowsheds along the Sierra's from Reno to Donner Pass and beyond. They are not very hard to do and unless you need to spend large amounts of money, great looking modern sheds can be built for very little cash. Check some of the Pentrex videos of snow fighting in the Sierra's for snowshed construction.

[Anonymous]

Fthr Dale Pertaka fo the Great Northern RHS produced a booklet some years ago with some HO scale drawings of various structures, including a snow shed. I have a water damaged copy, but Iam sure if you contact the GNRHS, they may be able to assist. Any modeller with average scratch building skills should be able construct a snow shed using these drawings.

[pab-windmills]

You might want to check out books on railroads in Scandinavia. In particular, Sweden and Norway used snow sheds quite a bit in the northern sections of their respective countries. I have several books illustrating these sheds - they are pretty cool - all made of wood and probably fun to model. I am planning to build a Swedish layout, and hope to include a snow shed . . . Good luck!

[GN-Rick]

The Great Northern Railway Historical Society also has information on the snowsheds that were
up on Stevens Pass, including cross-section schematics. I suppose it all depends on what
prototype you are looking to model.

[jrbarney]

Bassmaster,
One source of a kit for a CPR timber snowshed is Hunterline, a Canadian outfit:
http://www.hunterline.com/products.htm#snowshed
Their kit is available in O, S, HO or N, and their Web site gives prices in both Canadian and American money. Their products are produced using wood from Mt. Albert Scale Lumber Co. I saw their built up kits at the recent Timonium, MD, show and thought they looked very good. Here's a link to a keyword search at the Index of Magazines:
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext=snowshed&MAG=ANY
which resulted in 22 article citations from a variety of sources.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[Anonymous]

does anyone know where i can find information on modeling the structures[?] Thanks in adavaned[^][8D][:D][:)][:p]