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Posted by AF53 on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:45 PM

Now all you need is a small fire on board!!!!! Great video guys!

Ray

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Posted by IRB Souther Engineer on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:00 PM

captain perry

here is a link to a video of on of those jet engines at work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OO94Bk1cgw&NR=1&feature=fvwp

P.S. we got about 18 Inches of snow today I guess thats it for my railway for a while!  My steamers cannot tackle that!

Wow. Pretty impressive. But as some of the comments stated, it can't be very environmentally friendly(?).

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Posted by smcgill on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 6:33 PM

I think we got close to 18" on top of the 12" that melted  from another 18" we had last week!
More on Saturday.
I'll have to shovel out the tracks just to let the sun melt the ice on the tracks!
Sean

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Posted by captain perry on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 4:05 PM

here is a link to a video of on of those jet engines at work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OO94Bk1cgw&NR=1&feature=fvwp

P.S. we got about 18 Inches of snow today I guess thats it for my railway for a while!  My steamers cannot tackle that!

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Posted by smcgill on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 6:48 AM
We are getting clobered with wet snow!
@ 4am we had 6" of heavy snow!
Way to much to plow, but I could use it to make some molds as It compacts real good!!
Sean

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Posted by smcgill on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:54 PM

10" to 18" on the way!  Cool

I'll have to keep them running for a while!

The problem would be no place to put the snow!

OH Ya that's why I built the BEAST !!

I'll try some more vids  got a new Batt!!

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Posted by IRB Souther Engineer on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:36 PM

Plowing on your 12" gauge RR looks really cool (no pun intended). Nice videos.

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Posted by ztribob on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:43 PM

JamesP

Thanks for the video of your plowing, it looks great... Wow, you were clearing some deep snow!  If I ever have snow as tall as my train, I think I'll just stay in the house... Laugh

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Thanks for the comment James.  Yep, plowing snow is a lot of fun, but I guess it wouldn't be if it was as tall as your train.

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Posted by smcgill on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:58 AM

I just need to add some heat!!   Devil

  

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Posted by tangerine-jack on Monday, January 10, 2011 7:39 PM

This is how snow removal is done on the big 'uns:

 

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Posted by JamesP on Monday, January 10, 2011 6:44 PM

ztribob

That's pretty neat James.  I've commented on Sean's before on another forum and his is great.  But I've never seen snow plowing on 12" gauge.

Here is mine.

Bob

Thanks for the video of your plowing, it looks great... Wow, you were clearing some deep snow!  If I ever have snow as tall as my train, I think I'll just stay in the house... Laugh

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Posted by emipapa on Monday, January 10, 2011 1:45 PM

l loved the video's Sean and that PLOW does a GREAT JOB.

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Posted by ztribob on Monday, January 10, 2011 11:57 AM

[quote user="ztribob"]

That's pretty neat James.  I've commented on Sean's before on another forum and his is great.  But I've never seen snow plowing on 12" gauge.

Here is mine.

Bob

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 Ok, where did it go? 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32045587@N05/5333357933/

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Posted by ztribob on Monday, January 10, 2011 11:54 AM

That's pretty neat James.  I've commented on Sean's before on another forum and his is great.  But I've never seen snow plowing on 12" gauge.

Here is mine.

Bob

 

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Posted by JamesP on Sunday, January 9, 2011 8:02 PM

Both a wedge plow and a rotary... very nice!  They look good clearing the line.  Make sure you post more videos the next time you get snow!  (Edit: I just watched the rest of your videos, enjoyed them too!)

This is a little bigger than most garden railroads, but here is a video of me pushing snow last winter on my 12" gauge:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b0S4dghG2o

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Snow removal!!
Posted by smcgill on Sunday, January 9, 2011 11:42 AM

Went out this morning and noticed how light the snow was .
So I did try ,hear are two short video's of the crew working to clear the line!
I should of done this earler as the sun is making it sticky!
I think we will get more this year!
I need to get a new batt. camera kept shutting down.
The Beast does work.  Wow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8PesdK_iwQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_ObSJIeyM

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