. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .MOINT RUNDELL, Al li.\M-l\ li. C. experience, and who himself has seenwhat he describes, is perhaps the Lacey R. Johnson, assistant super-intendent of motive power of the Cana-dian Pacific Railway, who was for sev-eral years master mechanic in theRocky Mountain regions of that road,when giving the writer the result of hisobservations, said: A snow slide or avalanche is almostbeyond the power of description. Itrequires to be seen to be may notice away back, high upthe
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .MOINT RUNDELL, Al li.\M-l\ li. C. experience, and who himself has seenwhat he describes, is perhaps the Lacey R. Johnson, assistant super-intendent of motive power of the Cana-dian Pacific Railway, who was for sev-eral years master mechanic in theRocky Mountain regions of that road,when giving the writer the result of hisobservations, said: A snow slide or avalanche is almostbeyond the power of description. Itrequires to be seen to be may notice away back, high upthe mountains, a puff like the smoke. TYIICAL FORM OI- SNOW you watch it, if it is tearing out a newtrack through the forest, trees bowthemselves almost to the ground somedistance ahead of the slide itself, andfrom the mere force of the moving airmany of them snap off ten or fifteenfeet from the ground. As this enormousmass of snow hurls itself down the sideof the mountain it picks up these broken
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