Re: BNSF Snowsheds: 9 not 11
Author: Bruce Kelly
Date: 10-29-2007 - 07:31

The text and map in question say BNSF still uses eleven sheds on Marias. There are only nine. And most of them are not in the locations shown on the map. Shed 12 is shown pretty close, but it continues east a bit into the curve. Shed 11 is actually nearly a half mile west of where they show it, and the next two sheds actually lie west of where they show Shed 10.7. The remaining four sheds are all shown too far east. Where their map shows Shed 6 is actually the location of the easternmost surviving shed. Shed 4D is gone, and it certainly would not have been on the curving fill where they show it. Several government sites related to Glacier Park, avalanches, etc. do a good job of reporting on the sheds and the railroad's history of fighting snow there. For a visual tour, go to Google Maps, Terraserver, etc., and work your way up and down the hill. You can count the sheds, and see a few trains along the way.



Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  GN Snowsheds Steven D. Johnson 10-27-2007 - 12:41
  Re: GN Snowsheds Dale Jones 10-27-2007 - 16:20
  General Snowshed Questions Coleman Randall 10-27-2007 - 21:51
  Snowshed Logic Dick Seelye 10-27-2007 - 23:50
  Re: General Snowshed Questions Dale Jones 10-28-2007 - 04:48
  Re: General Snowshed Questions Coleman Randall 10-28-2007 - 05:07
  Re: General Snowshed Questions Dale Jones 10-28-2007 - 06:36
  Re: General Snowshed Questions Dmac844 10-28-2007 - 09:59
  Re: General Snowshed Questions johnwvan 10-28-2007 - 10:53
  Re: General Snowshed Questions - Stampede Pass George Andrews 10-28-2007 - 11:13
  Re: General Snowshed Questions E 10-28-2007 - 10:47
  Ghosts Dick Seelye 10-28-2007 - 11:42
  Ghosts on the Great Northern Dick Seelye 10-28-2007 - 11:55
  Re: Ghosts johnwvan 10-28-2007 - 11:58
  Re: Ghosts Cain Rock Yardmaster 10-29-2007 - 01:45
  Re: BNSF Snowsheds: 9 not 11 Bruce Kelly 10-29-2007 - 07:31
  Re: Ghosts and Dick Seelye's Knowledge Donovan Gray 10-29-2007 - 13:15
  Re: Bruce Kelly's post Steven D. Johnson 10-30-2007 - 15:49


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