Black and white print from album number 4. Southern Pacific Line locomotive number 2292 sits in a railyard with a snow plow attached to the front of the locomotive. Another locomotive is parked to the side of number 2292.
Rotary snowplow clearing snow as eight silhouetted figures, two holding shovels, stand at the edge of the of the clearing. A dark cloud of smoke rises up from the snowplow as it shoots the snow that is being cleared to one side. A mountain range blanketed with snow is seen in the distance.
Eight workers with shovels stand on a steep snow cliff made by the clearing of a railway pass. Snowplow tracks are prominent in the foreground and then trail off in the distance around the corner of a steep snow cliff. Mountains blanketed with snow can be seen in the distance.
