No -- Jordan spreaders have been around since roughly 1900.
Here's a website with information on them:
http://www.trainweb.org/JordanSpreader/sectionlist.htm
RWM
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
Railway Man http://www.trainweb.org/JordanSpreader/sectionlist.htm
Thanks for the link but I'm talking about the design? I haven't see this type of sleek look.
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'...
Jim
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin
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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Lots of good information .. you neglected however to mention the square wheels they are all equipped with !
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.
Randy StahlLots 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.
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.
Randy Stahl Lots of good information .. you neglected however to mention the square wheels they are all equipped with !
Randy: Long time -no hear. How is life in the great white north?
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?
I didn't know about the snow dozer's! Anyway thank's for sharing!
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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.
- Paul North.
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