You call that a snowblower?

[Daddy Don 893]

We could all use one of these this season...

[Sparky-(Admin) 19,697]

Finally a snow-chucker that wont jam up when you suck up the Sunday paper from under the snow !

Mike.........

[Roger from southern Iowa 1]

Now that IS a snow chucker!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the pics. Where was that at?

[Daddy Don 893]

This was in Nebraska snow drift. He was going to rescue a train that was stuck in a snow drift. I have more pictures of the other train that is stuck.

[Confused99 2]

I have seen several youtube videos of those. Extremely amazing. The question is, how can I get one mounted to the 520????and will the Onan keep up

Jason

[rickv1957 70]

That looks like it works almost as good as a Wheel horse blower!!! Rick

[Coadster32 793]

That thing kicks butt!! Could you post up the pics of the other train?? B)

[truckin88 104]

This was in Nebraska snow drift. He was going to rescue a train that was stuck in a snow drift. I have more pictures of the other train that is stuck.

Don,

You a railroad guy?

I work for a commuter railroad in NY/CT. Here we run push pull trains in bad storms, which is basically two diesels in different configs with big plows that run the whole line to the city and back to keep the rails clear.

[Daddy Don 893]

Some pics of the stuck train

[sodbuster 1]

B) sure beats shoveling!!! thanks for the pics.never seen one!!

[HorseFixer 2,012]

DAMN Now That Is CRazy I Want One!

[Coadster32 793]

That is truely awesome! Thanks a bunch for sharing. B)

[Daddy Don 893]

truckin88 I am a terminal manager for Buzzi Unicem USA cement mfg. co in Oklahoma City. We produce cement and ship it by rail and brages. We deal with all the railroads in the US. We have several ways of moving railcars and we have to depend on the major rail lines to get our product to the terminal here in the US. We have 10 plants and 30 terminals in the US. When there is a problem like this one they inform us about it and send pictures of what they are doing. I got these yesterday from my boss in Indianapolis, IN. The BNSF had railcars coming from Cape Girardeau, Mo. We also had some cars from Festus/Selma Mo. also in route. It is a lot of fun it the winter time getting cars to where they need to be.

[Duff 206]

Amazing pics!

Thanks for posting them!

Duff B)

[Dresden Guy 24]

Don,

GREAT PHOTOS!! I hope more trains get stuck so you can get even more shots or even some videos..... be sure to stand back far enough because that BLOWER puts snow drifts into the next zipcode. Don, if you're standing too close, they may not find you until the spring thaw!

Is that a two-stage blower or just a 5,000 HP single stage? It's worth noting that that "GIGUNDOUS BLOWER" is actually WH red which would account for it's AWESOME POWER....can you get me a ride on the next snowdrift run??

Love those shots, keep em' coming.

[stevasaurus 22,275]

Don, those pictures are fantastic...thanks for sharing...never have I seen a train stuck before...WOW

I have a snow-blower like that on my "N" guage railroad...but I have never had to use it. B)

[bitten 133]

And I thought I could move some snow with a 7' blower on the back of a International 966. Id like to see the inner workings of that thing.

[Raider 2]

Those are called rotary snow plows. There's some good video on youtube showing them at work and one with a very good explanation of how they are operated.

[Daddy Don 893]

go to youtube and type in railroad snow blowers to see the video.

[Shuboxlover 474]

That was about 30 miles from my house.....

[Daddy Don 893]

Did you get to go watch it? They use them a lot in the mountains.