http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=215856&nseq=31
Look at this and be amazed!
Okay. Call me jaded, but I missed the "amazing" bit. After replacing the shear pins on my snowthrower, all the photo reminds me of is the last few days of plowing the driveway…
chefjavier wrote:Are the enginners allow to ride the locomotive on those conditions?
Yes. If the snow is so deep that the locomotive can't safely plow it, a snowplow of some type is shoved by the locomotive, or if it's too deep for that, the snow is bulldozed down until a snowplow can handle it.
Biggest thing a train ever hit while I was riding in the cab of an Amtrak locomotive was a tree of about 8" diameter. We got down on the floor in case something came through the windshields. It put a 1" deep gouge down one side of the carbody.
RWM
Railway Man wrote: chefjavier wrote:Are the enginners allow to ride the locomotive on those conditions? Yes. If the snow is so deep that the locomotive can't safely plow it, a snowplow of some type is shoved by the locomotive, or if it's too deep for that, the snow is bulldozed down until a snowplow can handle it.Biggest thing a train ever hit while I was riding in the cab of an Amtrak locomotive was a tree of about 8" diameter. We got down on the floor in case something came through the windshields. It put a 1" deep gouge down one side of the carbody. RWM
Railway:
Thanks for the information and dedication! If you ever have questions about Hotel & Restaurant operations. YOu know who to ask..
Who knows, I may have a reason to take you up on that offer!
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If he was smart with a telephoto lens. If he wasn't he got buried which wouldn't be the first time.
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