General Discussion (Model Railroader)

Cool!  Er,...uh...neat!  I just vacuum mine.  Seems to work okay.

Live where it only falls on the mountain peaks so it can be enjoyed yet avoided without any effort.

Mark

PS -- cute pictures

SNOW !  - -- - -SNOW ! !  C'mon eh !  there are Canadians who read this forum , no more profanity.

Don't fight it.  Operate only during snow-free months and put the snow-fighting equipment on display.  It could come in handy for a "year without a summer" when global cooling returns.

Mark

Not much snow in my neck of the woods, shop forces have modified the Jordan spreader for ditch digging/cleanout and ballast spreading.  

Dave

Living up here in the Northeast corner of Ohio where the so-called "lake-effect" snows dump on us until Lake Erie freezes, I would love to have a "snow melter" like yours for my 300 ft driveway!

Have you tried out your rotary on real snow yet?  How is it powered?

Hey I got a few to show.  The first is a powered athearn rotary snowplow with decoder and light and soon sound. 

The next is a converted rivarossi rs-2 with a rivarossi gondola snowplow front end.

I also have a walthers jordan spreader that is not built yet.  Bring on the snow baby I am ready!!

Here's what we do when it snows:

 Does the last one blast hot air? Or does it just blow it away?

I haven't modelled it yet, but Half-Moon has what crews call the Snow Shredder. It's four B units, with the outdside units fitted with roataries, and one-two RDCs sandwhiched in between.

)B-B-RDC-RDC-B-B(                )=rotary blade 

 During travel, the rotary blades are disengaged from drive, and the Outside Bs provide power to get up to track speed. When it's time to play int he snow, the engine is unhooked from the traction motors to spin the blade. The traction motor in the blade unit ( or unit) takes power off the Inside B slug-style to provide muscle for charging the drifts. This works since the name of the game in snow is power, not neccesarily speed. The RDCs provide crew quarters for anyone on shovel duty, or should the unit get stuck. They may not provide any extra oomf to the operation, but by using RDCs, there's no deadweight on the train.

nik .n:

 Does the last one blast hot air? Or does it just blow it away?

Looks like the ones used to melt snow off of the switches.

My one piece of snowfighting equipment.

Well, the HO Santa Fe doesn't worry, but the Garden and Santa Fe, my G gauge out back does, because eastern Kansas does get a lot.  After several years of fighting snow outside I gave up and store the equipment during the winter.  But for a time, I could stand in my bathroom window and run a train outside using radio control/battery power after clearing the tracks.  That was the life.

Bob

 The Penn Lake currently has one Russel Plow:

This one happens to be a single track version.   I'm looking to pick up another one and bash it into a double track one.

Nick