Today's photos and video are all about snow, since it's so blasted cold here in Maryland.
Each fall the Free State Junction Railway MOW Snow Clearing Team performs a practice drill up on the Mountain Division ... using two B&O GP9s as power, a rotary plow, FA2 B unit to power the rotary, a combine tool car/bunk car, and flanger. It's a good thing the FSJR does this drill because it's paying off this week! This video shows the snow fighting drill in action back in the fall.
This morning ... truck helper watches the rotary in action as the GP9's 567 prime mover idles. 
GP9 is being fueled by a local fuel dealer. 
Willy Jo Wilson tops off the tank of the GP9 as MOW worker Buford Kingsley closes the tailgate. 
It takes a lot of switcher power to push the flanger through the deep drifts.
