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Ahhh, come on Chad. It's not that bad. What the story doesn't tell you is that the IANR took an additional five locos to that area, for a total of ten, and still could not get it to budge. Okay, it's pretty bad when ten locos can get out of a drift, I'll admit it.
Nowadays it seems comical, but back in the 1880's it could mean the difference between life and death for people in isolated prairie towns that totally depended on trains to bring them food, fuel and everything else they needed to live on. Sometimes gangs of several dozen men would spend an entire day shoveling a pass thru the snow, only to have another blizzard come up the following day and undo all their hard work.
Oh' thats not so bad'''' I have a picture in one of my Great Northern book's of a feller sitting in the snow on what looks like a stump up in the Cascades but on reading the caption He's sittin' on the top of a telegraph pole.
Good article, and lots of snow for you fellows!
What they need is a good snow plow, a rotary would be the way to go all right!
Here's doing it the hard way:
Wow, that looks like a fun job! I guess pilot plows just don't work too good when things get that bad. You'd think they'd have a flanger or something to help out except having 10 engines bucking drifts.
Yep! It has been a tough winter all over.
Y'all please keep your snow in northern latitudes.
Here in Alabama, we struggled with sun and 70 degrees F on Monday.
Tuesday was rain and an afternoon temp of 36 degrees F. But the sun comes back today to a high of 52 degrees F.
I wish we could bottle some of our summer heat to export to certain states right now.
We need to keep making electrical connectors so 1 million people without power can start paying the POWER companies again. I see this as an economic stimulis for my company!
Mikey
What the story doesn't tell you is that the IANR took an additional five locos to that area, for a total of ten, and still could not get it to budge. Okay, it's pretty bad when ten locos can get out of a drift, I'll admit it.
