Highway 2: Bear Creek & Snow Shed #8 🚂🏔️

Continuing along Highway 2 beside Bear Creek, we spotted something pretty interesting up on the mountainside—the railroad’s Snow Shed #8!

These covered structures protect the BNSF tracks from avalanches, allowing snow, rocks and debris to slide over the top instead of onto the trains. Pretty impressive engineering tucked into the mountainside—and definitely something we wouldn’t have noticed if we weren’t keeping our eyes open! 👀Read more