Well, I don't think anybody would be too eager to tailgate that hi-rail vehicle on the road.
Use that as a hair dryer for fast results, if you don't mind looking like Yul Brynner.
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Note the debris mixed with snow the obviously the result of an earlier avalanche up the road somewhere, just another day of railroading in the Rockies.
There were some branches mixed in the snow, so the snow is from punching through an avalanche. When an avalanche stops moving, as the previous poster noted, it compacts down into a very solid mass.
The avalanche likely was a planned event, with rail and highway plows positioned close by to go to work immediately to reopen the transportation corridors, before the mass hardened even more. Avalanche control is a regular event in the mountain passes of southern British Columbia.
cx500 The avalanche likely was a planned event...
The avalanche likely was a planned event...
And now you know where old artillery pieces go to retire. Just fire a dozen or so rounds a season - and nobody's shooting back.
Chuck, MSgt(Ret) USAF
tomikawaTT cx500 The avalanche likely was a planned event... And now you know where old artillery pieces go to retire. Just fire a dozen or so rounds a season - and nobody's shooting back. Chuck, MSgt(Ret) USAF
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In the US ski resorts, ski patrol/ops personnel usually hand set charges before the snow builds up to dangerous levels.
Deggesty tomikawaTT cx500 The avalanche likely was a planned event... And now you know where old artillery pieces go to retire. Just fire a dozen or so rounds a season - and nobody's shooting back. Chuck, MSgt(Ret) USAF Ah, yes.The ski resorts use their artillery to attempt to prevent killing avalanches. I am not sure what cannon they use. There are warnings posted that any shells found are to be left alone.
Ah, yes.The ski resorts use their artillery to attempt to prevent killing avalanches. I am not sure what cannon they use. There are warnings posted that any shells found are to be left alone.
Would be a whole lot of fun to get paid to use a big boom-boom.
In the Rogers Pass I believe the army uses artillery. In the Kicking Horse Pass I watched a helicopter dropping delayed charges. One rolled down to near track level but didn't explode, causing considerable delay waiting for the timer to have definitely run down before going in to retrieve the device.
50 minutes doesn't seem very efficient, but apparently they have put some thought into this.
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Geared Steam50 minutes doesn't seem very efficient, but apparently they have put some thought into this.
Using sharp tools would result in a need to repaint, most likely. Given that it took a jet engine 50 minutes to melt it off says it was pretty solid.
If they made any runs on drifts/avalanche materials, they probably packed it on pretty hard.
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^^^ OK, I will resolve the mystery here folks. I made the assumption you guys would read the youtube posters comments. What he said was the reason they used the jet engine against the front was not so much to clear the debris but to thaw out the inaccessible lines behind the plow that were preventing the wings of the plow from moving in and out. Yes it came in handy clearing the debris as well and yes they were in a rush to get both tasks done.
As many surmised here, the plow was clearing an avalanche and the snow was mixed with compacted and frozen clay, etc.
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