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Snow Plows >> It this the new technology???
Posted by Awesome! on Sunday, January 25, 2009 6:19 PM

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Posted by Railway Man on Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:23 PM

 No -- Jordan spreaders have been around since roughly 1900.

Here's a website with information on them:

http://www.trainweb.org/JordanSpreader/sectionlist.htm

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Posted by nssr9169 on Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:45 PM

What you have here is an old Great Northern railroad snow dozer…the information I have on these is that most were constructed at the railroads St Cloud Shops…some as early as the late 1920’s and constructed of wood…an some as late as 1953 and they resembled this one made out of steel I’m not sure the exact production runs or dates…however this one seems to have been modified over the years…they are fairly close to the Jordan spreader as mentioned above however they have full car bodies and different plow main plow designs but same principles…brute force was used for both to clear the tracks...and that philosophy is as old as the railroads themselves  

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Posted by Awesome! on Monday, January 26, 2009 7:26 AM

Railway Man

Thanks for the link but I'm talking about the design? I haven't see this type of sleek look.

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Posted by jrbernier on Monday, January 26, 2009 8:27 AM

  As Kale pointed out - This is an ex-GN 'Snow Dozer'.  GN took your basic 'Jordan' spreader idea and customized the design for snow service.  There are multiple variations of this car turned out by the GN shop forces over the years.  The GN painted them in 'Vermillion Red' & BN painted them in 'Cascade Green'.  The 'sleek' design is so snow/ice do not pile up as fast in the 'works'...

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Posted by beaulieu on Monday, January 26, 2009 9:03 AM

 Here is a photograph of an older GN built SnowDozer, with some later modifications;

Design 1

The GN then improved the design to this style

Design 2

The final generation produced by the GN were to this design;

Design 3

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Posted by Kootenay Central on Monday, January 26, 2009 4:33 PM

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Posted by Randy Stahl on Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:18 PM

Lots of good information .. you neglected however to mention the square wheels they are all equipped with !

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Posted by rrboomer on Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:07 PM

This is what a bad day on the plow looks like:

 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ndrr/photos/album/784068089/pic/478580414/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc

Near Ruso, ND from ndrr group photo file.

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Posted by beaulieu on Friday, January 30, 2009 12:12 AM

Randy Stahl

Lots of good information .. you neglected however to mention the square wheels they are all equipped with !

 

No square wheels, however there are no springs and no suspension. You feel every crossing and low joint, and when your plowing, your moving, fast.

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Posted by Randy Stahl on Friday, January 30, 2009 6:23 AM

beaulieu

Randy Stahl

Lots of good information .. you neglected however to mention the square wheels they are all equipped with !

 

No square wheels, however there are no springs and no suspension. You feel every crossing and low joint, and when your plowing, your moving, fast.

I just spent 12 hours on a Russell plow .. my body is still recovering.
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Posted by mudchicken on Friday, January 30, 2009 8:48 AM

Randy: Long time -no hear. How is life in the great white north?

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by Awesome! on Monday, February 2, 2009 7:47 PM

Randy Stahl

beaulieu

Randy Stahl

Lots of good information .. you neglected however to mention the square wheels they are all equipped with !

 

No square wheels, however there are no springs and no suspension. You feel every crossing and low joint, and when your plowing, your moving, fast.

I just spent 12 hours on a Russell plow .. my body is still recovering.

Randy do you have any pictures you want to share with the group?

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Posted by bubbajustin on Friday, February 6, 2009 5:30 PM

I didn't know about the snow dozer's! Anyway thank's for sharing!

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:45 PM

I'm pretty sure that one of the Burlington Northern Motive Power Annual booklets from the late 1970s - early 1980s had a lengthy article on the snow dozers.  Unfortunately, I think I don't have mine any more. so I can't point you to a specific year or page.  If you can find that one in a library or from a bookseller or on-line, it would be a good resource.

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