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Cleared train tracks in the Sierra Nevada at Blue Canyon, California, after a snow storm in 1917. (Source: NOAA/Department of Commerce. Courtesy of the Historic National Weather Service Collection. Photograph originally published in "Monthly Weather Review," October 1919, p. 698.)


Cleared train tracks after a snow storm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains