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Snow Plow needed

Modeling
#97

Pete Lassen said:

Craig Townsend said:

You better get it done in the next 6-10 days as there are hints that a cold weather system is going to be dropping down from BC starting Friday/Saturday… The bread, milks and eggs are flying off the shelves already…

Why is it that french toast is only made during a storm, hurricane or natural disaster??? nobody clears the shelves of beans and rice and enchilada sauce, or won ton wrappers, just all the stuff needed to make french toast

(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif), That’s funny, haden’t ever thought of it that way before

#98

Craig Townsend said:(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif) tried warning you… :wink: All we got in Port Orchard was a light dusting this week and lots of black ice. Back to rain now. I can’t give you too hard of a time as I have a snow plow project that has languished for years. I keep plugging along slowly…

Craig, I don’t ever listen, just ask my wife(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)

#99

Finally back spending a little time on this project, maybe I will get it done before Summer so I can park it until next year(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

The metal leading edge of the plow is built up from an aluminum piano hinge, Styrene, and lead sheet. It is shown here with the ice scrapper blade in the down and clamped position.

The air brake cylinder driven lifting mechenism for raising and lowering the ice scrapper blade.

Showing how the scrapper blade is held up off the track when not plowing.

Of course all parts need to be treated/painted and weathered yet.

#100

Siri,

Lift the ice scraper.

#101

Looking good!

#102

Well it’s taken 15 months but this beast is finally done, and I mean beast it weighs in at 6 1/2 pounds. Probably take 2 three truck Shays to push it through the snow(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)

These first picts are of the plow with the ice blade down and the wings extended.

Here the ice blade is in the raised position for dry travel.

The spreader wings in the closed position.

Oh yea, I finally gave up and installed an LED for the headlight using a 9 volt battery(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif).

It’s a good feeling to finally have this project off the bench but now I have to wait till next winter to try it out(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cry.gif) Oh well, on to something else(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#103

that is stupendous! fantastic! supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! colors are great. love the grey on the blade. really shows off the wood textures…

#104

Thanks for your enthusiasm Jim.

It was a really fun project with a lot of complications that all worked out well in the end. The only thing left to do is come up with some lettering that is somewhat reasonably correct for the car and the era. As this car is a model of one built and ran by the McCloud River Rail Road, standard gauge by the way, and has been bought by the Shasta Pacific at a surplus sale and mounted on narrow gauge trucks the lettering is in question.

I think I have decided on using a very common approach for the era. We will blank out the original lettering (non existant) and paint on the Shasta pacific’s name and numbers in a freshly painted box on each side of the car.

More fun stuff.

#105

#106

Beautiful! Now you can head down to Dunsmuir to fix that one!

#107

Turned out fantastic Rick.

#108

Beautiful model very realistic looking, love the wood blade

#109

Wow. Let me echo all the compliments listed above!

#110

Excellent as always Rick.

#111

Rick Marty said:

Rooster ’ said:

You can get out all your building blocks and make a plow but Ken and the rest of us would like to see it in use while Ken sits by the wood stove!

Rooster,

You are missing the whole point of this build. By investing a lot of time and effort to produce a snow plow it pretty much guarntees that it won’t snow, and that is my main objective(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)

I’m only a Rooster and not a paid meteorologist but I would like to go out on a limb (or crow on a fence) and predict a heavy snow in Oregon this year!

Ken will love the videos while sitting by his wood stove in PA!

Excellent work as always Rick !

Thank you (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#112

Don’t forget the window heater ,ditch lites and (HEP cabling as you never know)?

#113

Finally ordered up lettering for several cars from Stan and now the plow and flanger are really finished.

Here they are sitting on the siding in the mountain town of Hyampom waiting for the call.

I decided to go with the paint over look for the lettering, in other words I took the lazy way out.

My story is that the Shasta Pacific bought this used equipment from the McCloud River RR, put narrow gauge trucks under them, painted over

the McCloud markings and lettered them for the new home road, too cheap to repaint the whole cars(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)

Project complete!

Some Local railroad history
#114

Whats the compressor for or is it a compressor ?

Oregon is gonna get a record snowfall this year and I personally want to see video of the new plow and flanger working it!

#115

Rooster,

The “compressor” is an air brake cylinder used to raise and lower the ice cutting blade, that’s that big iron thing on the front(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif).

They used chains to hook the hinged blade to the air cylinder arm to raise it off the rails when moving and not plowing. For plowing the

blade was dropped and locked in place and the chains removed.

You can drop back a few posts for pictures that more clearly show the blade in the raised and lowered position.

If Oregon gets a record snow fall this winter it is pretty unlikely that you are going to see video of anything but smoke from my wood stove(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#116

A wonderful build and final model. Great job as usual, Rick.