Speaking of Ice

Ice can be super dangerous. If any of you have seen our "Plow Extras" video released in 1988, we have lots of wedge plow action where they go 30-40 mph and bust drifts with a pair of diesels pushing this exciting wedge plow. Well we got some old film that was taken in 1971 of a plow wreck while it was plowing. Three Geep 9's made 2 passes into this deep cut that was on a branch line and hadn't been plowed in a month or more. It was filled over the top of the plow. Lots of sightseers were out, including a lady with a camera, who filmed the second and third runs. On the third try they backed up about half a mile and made a good run at it, only to hit ice at the bottom of the cut, and the plow went up like a ski jump, the rear truck fell off in the air stiking the front of the first Geep, and tore the hood off as the nose flipped the plow. I got the plow foreman on camera recounting this experience. He was never in a plow again after that, and was the head maintenance guy in Stratford from then on.
As luck would have it in 1988 they decided to run a CN plow extra on that branch and I got a shot near that same spot 17 years later(not much snow there in 88 though. Ice can be a nasty thing when buried like that!
End of my holiday snow story!
Greg Scholl
PS Jim I realize winter stuff aint gonna happen, I was just dreamin a bit! Hey its almost Christmas!