the wedge plow

[chefjavier]

http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/52564

Have you seen this wedge plow operate in the RR? Or it just the cascade?

 

[GN-Rick]

That 'wedge plow' is actually nothing more than a ballast regulator, outfitted with a larger blade for winter. They are regular equipment on the BNSF Scenic Subdivision. Another, even cooler piece of snow removal equipment is the ex-Great Northern Railway snow dozer # BNSF 972514, currently based at Skykomish, Washington. This unit was built in 1966 at the St. Cloud, Minnesota shops. On Marias Pass, BNSF uses old GN dozers built as early as 1935! (Though they'v been rebuilt more recently.)

[mudchicken]

Slightly altered Kershaw model 46 ballast regulator. (ballast plow off, snow plow on)

[dldance]

one jsut like it is setting in the yard here after clearing about 50 miles of snow

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[Wyonate]

That 'wedge plow' is actually nothing more than a ballast regulator, outfitted with a larger blade for winter. They are regular equipment on the BNSF Scenic Subdivision. Another, even cooler piece of snow removal equipment is the ex-Great Northern Railway snow dozer # BNSF 972514, currently based at Skykomish, Washington. This unit was built in 1966 at the St. Cloud, Minnesota shops. On Marias Pass, BNSF uses old GN dozers built as early as 1935! (Though they'v been rebuilt more recently.)

Was this it?  I took this pic about a month ago.  We got about 20 inches, I didn't see them running it.  Even though I seen it in the yard about 3 days before the storm. I particulurly like this pic, 8200-8224 were upgraded to 4500thp.  I zoomed in on this pic but could tell if the last # is a 4 or 6.  The rest were the same as you posted above.  Haven't seen the plow sence the pic was taken. 

[mudchicken]

That's a Jordan Spreader, Wyonate....the propulsion unit is behind it.

[J. Edgar]

 heres a  wedge type plow wroking in MI on the Great Lakes Central last March.....much bigger then the Jordan spreader or the ballast regulator.....although the Jordan spreader can and does get used moving snow.....CSX Det Div uses a Jordan west of Grand Rapids MI to push the snow farther away from the tracks.....west MI usually gets about 7 million feet of lake effect snow a year snow its got to be moved

 

 

[Awesome!]

Does anyone has any better wedge plow that would like to share pictures?