Caption

Snow Gallery, Snow Shed, the Union Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada around 1870. Wooden structures were built in the 19th century to protect railroad tracks from massive amounts of snow and avalanches, America, reproduction from a 19th century model. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of original unknown, nostalgically colored

Date

Jun 08, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/ImageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

Reference

BRK26H56_318

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

93.5Mb (31.2Mb) / 21.1in x 17.2in / 6344 x 5152 (300dpi)

Keywords

no people black huge old-fashioned obsolete date building architecture history gallery drawing railway track rail traffic accurate avalanche snow Mountain Range nature America construction classic illustration depiction mountain range antiquity historic protect mountainous dangerous big landscape dyed old restored contemporary nostalgia Sierra Nevada drawn retro danger risk colorized file authentic woodcut snow disaster mountain restoration former wooden nostalgic vintage sketch printing method travel photography replication 19th century 1870 Wood construction mountainscape Historic illustration Wood engraving colouring Snow mass deserted giant oldfashioned outdated structure railroad track precise open air classical representation range ancient times historical protective large scenery coloured Retro style venture colourized real xylograph reconstruction nineteenth century Wooden construction alpine landscape Historical illustration nobody gigantic old fashioned antiquated train track exact mountain chain great countryside colored realistic woodprint reproduction 1900s wooden structure mountain scenery enormous outmoded out of date ridge landscape photo genuine replica mountainous region massive copy mountainous landscape mountain landscape mountain backdrop mountainous area Bergland dates buildings galleries drawings railway tracks avalanches constructions illustrations depictions mountain ranges Altertum protecting landscapes dangers files woodcuts snow disasters mountains restorations formerly printing methods 19th-century Historic illustrations railroad tracks classically ranges historically sceneries reconstructions Historical illustrations replicas mountain landscapes mountainous areas no one on black rail rails track tracks Mountains depicting historical image history image history images protects oldest Mount Mt. Mont Mt restoration work made of wood vintage-styled representing landscape photograph landscape shot