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Title: The White Pass and Yukon Route Avalanche Program, Forecasting and Risk Management for a Historical Railroad
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Bill Glude
Description: The White Pass and Yukon Route (WPYR) is a narrow gauge railroad built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. Considered impossible to build by many w...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.48.pdf
Keywords: railroad, avalanche program, alaska, yukon
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Title: Avalanche Accidents Involving People Along Transportation Corridors and the Implications for Avalanche Operations
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Timothy D. Glassett, Frank Techel
Description: Here we investigate avalanche accidents involving people along transportation corridors (road or railroad) in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, ...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O14.02.pdf
Keywords: road, railroad, avalanche accidents
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Title: The History and Evolution of Track Machinery Used for the Purpose of Avalanche Clean Up on the Alaska Railroad
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bruce A. Gough
Description: Avalanches pose unique challenges to transportation corridors in Alaska. The states distance from the contiguous lower 48, coupled with extreme weathe...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-37.pdf
Keywords: avalanche cleanup, snow rotary, alaska railroad, risk reduction, excavator, bulldozers
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Title: Evolution of Avalanche Risk Reduction on the Alaska Railroad
Date: 2009
Authors: David Hamre
Description: Unavailable
Object ID: issw-2009-0533-0537.pdf
Keywords: railroad, ahi, risk, calculations
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Title: Enviromental Implications for Explosives Based Risk Mitigation: A Case Study from the BNSF Railway Avalanche Safety Program Essex, Montana, USA
Date: 2006
Authors: David Hamre, Richard W. Steiner
Description: On January 28th, 2004, numerous avalanches released above the BNSF Railway tracks located in John F. Stevens Canyon, Montana. In particular, three ava...
Object ID: issw-2006-747-756.pdf
Keywords: bnsf, railroad, snowsheds, avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard, explosives, artillery
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