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Anyone have videos of railroad snowblowers?

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Anyone have videos of railroad snowblowers?
Posted by 88gta350 on Sunday, January 23, 2005 4:29 PM
I'm looking for videos someone cast post or videos on a website someone can point me to of railroad snowblowers... that's probably not the technical term for them, but it works. I'm talking about the big rotary's they use out west ahead of the engines. Thanks!
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Posted by adrianspeeder on Sunday, January 23, 2005 4:33 PM
I call them rotary's and would be interested in videos too. When im clearing snow thats what i imagine im running.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 23, 2005 5:00 PM
Pentrex made one of #OY on the Durango and Silverton I think.
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Posted by 88gta350 on Sunday, January 23, 2005 5:45 PM
I'm looking for ones on the web. Thanks!
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Posted by cypriano on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:38 AM











Above is picture of white-out created by rotary snowblower on Hutchinson & Northern southeast of Hutchinson, Kansas
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Posted by miniwyo on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:48 PM
I have seen the one with the OY Its on the Cumbres and Toltec in Southern Colorado/Northern New Mexico

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Posted by CANADIANPACIFIC2816 on Sunday, March 27, 2005 2:57 PM
Check out Railway Productions. In the very early 90's they produced a video tape on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, using Rotary OY. Railway Productions produces excellent railroad tapes, and today this same tape might be available in DVD format.
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Posted by chad thomas on Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:07 PM
Try the pentrex site. Here is a link to the site of a SP produced video on Pentrex.

http://www.pentrex.com/snow.html
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Posted by chad thomas on Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:12 PM
Heres a link to a bunch of rotary plow stuff:


http://search.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/nsearch?catalog=pentrex&query=rotary+plows&.autodone=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pentrex.com%2Fnsearch.html
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Posted by tatans on Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:23 PM
Try Railroad Video Warehouse, lot's of them.
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Posted by TheS.P.caboose on Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:30 PM
I've seen videos by both Pentrez and Video Rails that have rotarues on them. These videos were taken on the Donner Pass range.
Regards Gary

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