Snow Plowing

[jjlamkin]

Hi Everyone!
What is the most amount of snow a modern locomotive can plow before they have to call out the rotary or plow locomotive?

[wabash1]

not sure in my running ive went thru a foot or so plowing, its real neat looking back at your train seeing that stuff fly. and at the crossings where the road crews have plowed i feel sorry for the folks that i have threw big hunks of ice on the cars there, you do feel it when you go thru the piles of snow at crossings. something else snow related is that all the loose snow blowing around gets on the brake shoes and it becomes iced up. it does take about a 1/2 to 1 mile for the ice to wear off the shoes before you get braking effort so it may take about 2 miles to stop instead of 1 in normal conditions

[jjlamkin]

j,
Thanks for the reponse! I wish I was as fortunate to see that from the cab. Right now I am a railroad fan looking at it from the outside. It would be a real trip to even just cab ride with all that horsepower at your finger tips.
Jim
Edelstein, Illinois

[Anonymous]

Hi, I work for a road in northern Maine (read cold & snow). Back in '95 the railroad was sold to a bunch of venture capitalists who must have wondered the same thing you did. I took a frieght out after an 20" storm and could not see a thing over 20 or 25 mph as the snow would be up in the windshield. After doubleing one hill and tripleing another we only made half our run before we hoged. Now after the first train goes throgh the "trail" should be good for the rest right? Wrong! If you don't run the plow the track dosent get flanged. Now every single wheel flange has to fight through the snow and feels like you're pulling a 10 lb. aplication. Also, with each wheel kicking up snow you can not see your train. They went back to running plows after we started burning up traction motors, presumably from constantly running in the snow. Slofr8.

[Anonymous]

How Busy is the line you were running on