Re: Rotary Snowplow Park, Breckenridge, CO *PIC*

From: [www.summithistorical.org]
The rotary snowplow you see in the Breckenridge Rotary Snowplow Park is not the one used by the Colorado & Southern Railway to get from Como to Breckenridge via Boreas Pass.
This 108-ton snowplow, built in 1901 [actually 9/1900 ref. G. Best "Snowplow"] for the White Pass and Yukon Route in Alaska, is the 61st such machine made by the Cook Locomotive and Machine Company of Patterson, N.J. It operated in Alaska as the White Pass Rotary #2 until 1963, when it was replaced by bulldozers. It sat in the White Pass Yards in Skagway, Alaska, until 1977 when it was purchased and moved to Baker, Oregon, by Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration, Inc.
The present-day Denver, Leadville & Gunnison Railway bought the snowplow in 1988 and moved it to Denver where it underwent repairs at the Regional Transportation District's Burkhardt Shops. Six months later, the restored rotary was moved from Denver via Hoosier Pass to Breckenridge. This snowplow is one of only five known narrow-gauge rotaries in existence.
The picture below is from Murray Lundburg's RailsNorth.com
[www.explorenorth.com]
"Rotary Crew and Outfit" shows the business end of The White Pass & Yukon Route Railway's Rotary Snow Plow No. 2, possibly at Glacier Station.