MENTAL DIVERSION... TRAINS VERSUS SNOW

[230RN]

https://youtu.be/YYyNIzRaPNs (8:39)

Topic title self-explanatory.

Interesting.

The one of the folks at the train station at 0:27 ff reminds me of Colorado voters. :(

[K Frame]

That one woman could have gotten out of the worst of the spray had she reacted when the first bow wave blew up at the other end of the platform.

Hope she enjoyed her damp ride to work. :)

[HankB]

That one woman could have gotten out of the worst of the spray had she reacted when the first bow wave blew up at the other end of the platform.

Hope she enjoyed her damp ride to work. :)

I'm not so sure about that - the video seemed to go into slow motion as soon as the bow wave formed, so she really had less time to move . . . but considering how deep the snow was on the tracks, she really ought not have been standing that close anyway. Anyone in the snow belt should KNOW by the time they grow up that big vehicles + snow banks mean a lot of snow splash.

As I watching this video - including the shots of trains with snowplows - I was thinking that it's a pity that the protestors who block highways never seem to try blocking railroads . . . 

[HeroHog]

@ 5:41, a plow train hits a snowbank big enough to bog the train down to a stop.

[K Frame]

I have the Time Life book series on the Old West, and the one about railroads has a picture of a plow train (along with pictures of the avalanch sheds they used to build over tracks).

It said that it was common for a plow to be pushed by up to 10 engines to get through some of the drifts (sometimes not successfully) until the introduction of the rotary snow thrower in the 1880s.