Three veteran of many winters idle the night away before plowing BNSF's East End Yard on Thursday. The SD9's are of CB&Q and GN lineage and the plow is ex-GN.
It will take 4 passes to get the snow out of this one.
Running 15 MPH there not going to make it in on there hours at this speed
Plow Extra 202 passes the decommissioned signal at MP 34.8. The WACR had previously run a spreader through this section of track, but additional accumulation left the tracks covered.
The WACR plow extra eases past the old Hood building. Years ago, it was used for loading milk cars. The Hood sign remained on the building up until a few years ago.
Highway plows made work for Guilford's plow ST 18203. In addition to moving several inches/feet from above the rail heads, towering mounds of snow greeted the plow at most highway grade crossings... (more)
After suffering a broken axle this past summer, Guilford's (Pan Am Ry) tamper-turned-plow ST 18203 got called for a Feb. 15 workout. Several feet of snow fell on Maine with blowing and drifting s... (more)
A WC plow extra holds the house track as a loaded all-rail ore train heads south on the Superior Subdivision on Valentine's Day in 2001.
A plow train from Minneapolis is clearing the main line to Glenwood and is on the last lap into town. Obscured in the snow is Soo GP9 2402. Several westbound freights are following behind the plow... (more)
A plow train from Minneapolis has cleared the main line, and a westbound behind the 754 has made it to Brooten, where F7 2228B and another F7 lead an eastbound past the depot and into the siding e... (more)
Look out! A plow extra with a GP9 pushing explodes into a cut near Barrett. This was one of three plow trains running on this day to Glenwood, MN - one from Minneapolis, one from Thief River Falls... (more)
UP 168 has dropped its train at Moulton, IA and is plowing the line to Ottumwa light.
