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[John Culp]

I've seen pictures of that monster in action!

John

On Aug 9, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Rick Rowlands wrote:

> The Southern Pacific Railroad had some rotary plows based in 
> Roseville, California at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains.  
> Their line through Donner Pass was a real battle to keep open.   After 
> the wedge plows became ineffective due to the buildup of snow the SP 
> would assemble a "super set" of two rotary plows.  They would leave 
> Roseville with one rotary on the point, an F7B power car, three or 
> four six axle locomotives, another F7B and the other rotary facing 
> backwards.  With all that power and with the second rotary there 
> wasn't much that this train couldn't plow through!


John Culp
Bristol, Tennessee, USA