. The boys' book of railroads . y. Indeed there is no limit to the catas-trophes that might result if the line is blocked. So the most important task in the world to therailroad man is the necessity of keeping the lineopen. Wrecks must not be permitted to block itany longer than is absolutely necessary, andfloods or storms must be fought and conqueredbefore they can cripple traffic, and sometimesthis task is far more difficult than that of clear-ing away wreckage. A severe winter storm will do more to upsettraffic and block the line than the most disas-trous of wrecks, especially in mountain d
. The boys' book of railroads . y. Indeed there is no limit to the catas-trophes that might result if the line is blocked. So the most important task in the world to therailroad man is the necessity of keeping the lineopen. Wrecks must not be permitted to block itany longer than is absolutely necessary, andfloods or storms must be fought and conqueredbefore they can cripple traffic, and sometimesthis task is far more difficult than that of clear-ing away wreckage. A severe winter storm will do more to upsettraffic and block the line than the most disas-trous of wrecks, especially in mountain of the biggest difficulties that some of thewestern roads encounter are the heavy winterstorms that over night pile up drifts on theright-of-way that will delay traffic for hours oreven days. , These roads, and in fact all northern roads, inaddition to having their wrecking trains con-stantly awaiting a call, have other emergencyequipment in the form of snow-plows. Thesevary from the flange-like affairs that can be.
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