Re: D&S Flanger Train - Plowing a wye

Most of the time the D&S flanger trains stop and turn around at the Cascade wye. This day, we went a few more miles up the line. The train stops at the 9 minute mark in the video and a decision was made to go up the valley as far as possible. After a couple miles, a tree was down across the track and the train backed up to the Cascade wye.

My D&RGW engineer Frank Wright told me he won a steak dinner bet that he could back up thru 3 foot deep snow on the Crested Butte wye with a K-37.

There is the easy way and the hard way to clear a leg of the wye.

The easy way is to use a front end loader or regulator. D&S uses a combination of historic D&RGW equipment (plow pilots and flangers) and modern MOW equipment.



Sometimes it has to be be the old fashioned hard way. Cascade wye.


If the snow is not too deep, sometimes the flanger train can back up one leg. I have been amazed how much snow a caboose can plow. Cascade wye.






Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 02/02/2024 09:50AM by Jerry474.