Re: SP18 out and about on the D&S today
| February 17, 2019 08:02PM |
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guymonmd Wrote:
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> It looks like SP18 almost needs a snowplow.
> Something she never needed in the CA desert.
Not exactly. The SP narrow gauge got snow in the mountains regularly. Some locos were equipped with snow plows including 18. They even had flangers.
Below is 18 equipped with a small pilot plow. Maybe we should have made a replica.
Jeff Taylor
CRRM curator of equipment and rolling stock.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/2019 08:03PM by Jeff Taylor.
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> It looks like SP18 almost needs a snowplow.
> Something she never needed in the CA desert.
Not exactly. The SP narrow gauge got snow in the mountains regularly. Some locos were equipped with snow plows including 18. They even had flangers.
Below is 18 equipped with a small pilot plow. Maybe we should have made a replica.
Jeff Taylor
CRRM curator of equipment and rolling stock.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/2019 08:03PM by Jeff Taylor.
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