Posted on 02/06/2010 12:35:18 PM PST by smokingfrog
>>Graphics Warning<<
These photos were taken on the Bellwood Subdivision, between Seward and David City, Nebraska on the BNSF RR. Seward is about 25 miles west of Lincoln , on the Ravenna Sub. A few blizzards and sub zero temperatures coupled with moderate winds made for a beautiful, but, flash frozen environment. A freight train was snowed in at David City and a rotary snow plow was sent to clear the track of drifts that varied from 6ft or less up to 12ft in spots!! The photos were taken on Jan. 8th through Jan. 10th.
Holy Carp! That’s some serious kinda’ snow blower. Cool pics.
I am glad they don’t need to use this on the BNSF line next to our house (about 150 feet to the tracks).
I have a couple of HO models of these. Some day I’ll have enough room for a track layout and have a scene of them clearing snow like where I grew up in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Funny thing is I live just a couple miles away from the Transportation Museum in Alaska, they have a working small scale track that runs all over the property you can ride on, it would be really neat to have a scale working model of a snowblower like that and have a special winter cruise.
BUMP!
Beautiful photo and you are very lucky to live there. Thank you :-)
Anyone who comes to WV can ride these old steam engines as they pull tourists up and down the mountain in the old open-sided cars. Beautiful ride, and most guys’ dream. My son and hubby both couldn’t wait to get inside that steam engine and play with the bells & whistles. LOL
Mark for later read
Make a single scene model (for show maybe) of that Ytube video of the stuck snow plow: 12 engines and no train.
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