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kcsivils

March 13, 2017 04:07PM

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Seeing the recently posted photographs of snow clearing operations on the Sumpter Valley has made me wonder which type of locomotive would be better suited to snow clearing operations.

Would geared locomotives be better with a push plow or rotary given their ability to operate at slow speeds?

Or are rod locomotives better at snow clearing in all situations?

Would one be better with one type of plow and the other with the other type of plow?

i.e, geared better with the rotary but rod better with a push plow or vice versa?

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Snow plows, geared locomotives and rod locomotives	kcsivils	March 13, 2017 04:07PM
Re: Snow plows, geared locomotives and rod locomotives	Tom Moungovan	March 13, 2017 04:15PM
Re: Snow plows, geared locomotives and rod locomotives	J.B.Bane	March 13, 2017 05:00PM
Re: Snow plows,nah!	Chris Walker	March 13, 2017 05:26PM
Re: Snow plows,nah!	cdaspit	March 13, 2017 05:33PM
Re: Snow plows,nah!	Dirk Ramsey	March 13, 2017 11:09PM
Re: Snow plows,nah!	kcsivils	March 14, 2017 10:05AM
Re: Snow plows, geared locomotives and rod locomotives	jim pallow	March 13, 2017 05:48PM
Re: Snow plows, geared locomotives and rod locomotives	Tom Moungovan	March 14, 2017 05:33AM
Re: Snow plows, geared locomotives and rod locomotives	Jim Grigsby	March 14, 2017 05:44PM
Re: DSP&P shay use.....	RDannemann	March 14, 2017 11:13AM
Re: Snow plows, geared locomotives and rod locomotives	Kelly Anderson	March 17, 2017 07:35AM
Re: Snow plows, geared locomotives and rod locomotives	Chris Walker	March 17, 2017 02:13PM
Re: Two-Horsepower Snow Plows better than Diseasels	Russo Loco	March 17, 2017 03:22PM

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