The animals seek the cleared paths of the tracks to make their journey easy but then get killed by trains, reports the Anchorage Daily News.

The animals will not leave the tracks for anything and between mid-November to mid-December, trains killed a dozen moose in a particularly snowy and narrow 100-mile corridor from Talkeetna to the Susitna River.

"When a moose gets in front of a train, it runs down the tracks. It takes two miles to stop a train," said Gary Olson of the Anchorage-based, non-profit Moose Federation.

Olson proposed having the Alaska National Guard use its amphibious personnel carriers called Susvees to create a crusty path on the snow next to the tracks so the moose can walk on the new path.

Another plan would have the railroad build a type of tunnel below the tracks with directional fencing to corral the moose into the tunnel.