Large Scale Central

Clearing Snow on the Strasburg Railroad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGYJRsiuHEM

Dennis

Pictures?

Tom

Here’s a few for you Tom…

That is a really nice video. Did they pull the plow out of the Pennsy museum across the street? It sure worked well in some very deep drifts. The video makes me want ot get out to plow but the storm yesterday was 5" of wet snow and now it is ice. Tomorrow we expect another several inches of wet slop. BUMMER.

Does anyone know the reason for them to back up the engine to push the plow?

I guess I never saw that before.

Tom

Maybr no front coupler! Paul

Tom Stephens said:

Does anyone know the reason for them to back up the engine to push the plow?

I guess I never saw that before.

Tom

The engine only faces in one direction as there’s no turntable at Strassburg. It backs down to Paradise with the passenger train, then runs around it and goes forward back to Strassburg. Has to do the same thing with the plow.

Todd Haskins said:

That is a really nice video. Did they pull the plow out of the Pennsy museum across the street?

The RR has their own plow. The snow would be melted by the time they got the plow out of the museum.

The Museum and the Railroad are 2 entirely different entities.