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[weebee]

OOOPS!

Do you know the story behind this?

 

[mustang]

They were traveling down an unplowed section of track , packed snow lifted it off the rails and over the embankment it went !

 

[weebee]

Wow, I bet they had fun getting that back on the tracks!

 

[hark]

They were traveling down an unplowed section of track , packed snow lifted it off the rails and over the embankment it went !

Interesting story behind the photo! So just how DO they plow railroad tracks? Does anyone know?

 

[mustang]

(not my photo, stock wordpress image)

 

[Sandpatch]

Interesting story behind the photo! So just how DO they plow railroad tracks? Does anyone know?

For extreme conditions, the large western and Canadian roads maintain large rotary snowthrowers. The type of derailment that mustang photographed happens most often at highway grade crossings where the hard-packed snow becomes ice and fills in the flangeway. Railroads also maintain another piece of equipment called a "flanger" which serves to clear crossings.

 

[Sandpatch]

Found some old b&w photos this morning which I scanned. Here's a C&NW locomotive as shot in November 1975 in suburban Chicago, IL.

 

[Sandpatch]

While we are looking at wrecks, here's a crumpled C&NW caboose taken in July 1976 in Barrington, IL. I think the train was rear-ended by another train that overran a signal. I hope no one was injured

 

[Sandpatch]

Here's a "dwarf" signal protecting the crossing of the C&NW and EJ&E at Barrington, IL. The interlocking tower (now razed) appears in the background. Taken December 1976.

 

[Sandpatch]

Taken October 1977 in Knoxville, TN. I just liked the composition and waited until the pigeons took flight.

 

[Alan]

Snow Removal. This is from the Railroad Museum of PA in Strasburg.

 

[Rick M]

Shot with the J3,

 

[hark]

Snow Removal. This is from the Railroad Museum of PA in Strasburg.

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Ahhh...I see how it's done! Thanks to both Sandpatch and Alan for the info on removing snow!

 

[Sandpatch]

Shot with the J3,

What's he J3? I love the shot -- I'm a big Susquehanna (New York, Susquehanna & Western) fan. I used to live in an apartment in northern NJ adjacent to abandoned NYS&W track and never dreamed that it would be restored to service carrying modern stack trains. Of course this happened a few years after I moved away. :frown-new:

 

[Alan]

An insiders view....

 

[Sandpatch]

Too, most locomotives used in areas that find snow are permanently equipped with small plows like you see on EJ&E 651 and 663. As long as trains run these small plows help keep the line clear.

 

[Rick M]

What's he J3? I love the shot -- I'm a big Susquehanna (New York, Susquehanna & Western) fan. I used to live in an apartment in northern NJ adjacent to abandoned NYS&W track and never dreamed that it would be restored to service carrying modern stack trains. Of course this happened a few years after I moved away. :frown-new:

Nikon 1 J3 mirrorless camera. Check out the Mirrorless threads, compact system with a 1" sensor.

 

[RON_RIP]

On the road to Silverton, Colorado in 1982 We will not mention what camera I used, This was before I saw the light.

 

[Rick M]

Finger lakes line,


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[RON_RIP]

One last one and then I will leave you train guys alone. This one is only train related and I have titled it "End of the line"