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EXCELLENT, but would have been nice to have seen the plow from the front. LGB currently has a super-fine limited edition operating brass/diecast Swiss model of a rotary steam snowplow, but it is PRICEY at $4000! Probably made by a Swiss company for them, as they are primarily a plastics company A nice model for the high-rollers out there!

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That rotary plow is way cool (in every sense of the word) - though if I were the scale engineer I'd go punch the guy with the shovel in his big toe for adding more snow to the tracks...!

So what does a G-scale loco like these weigh and how does that mass scale up to the real world?  The 'adhesion' factor must be vastly out-of-scale?  so, for the matter is the density of the snow - the snow in the video wasn't powder.  Still, very neat

I wish they could make an effective operating rotary plow in O Gauge.  I tried ramming snow with a Jordan spreader, but there wasn't enough traction to push snow.

Today, Seattle broke a record for the most snow in modern history for February.  In celebration, here's a ten year anniversary reprise of "Winter on the Woodshire".

 

WindupGuy posted:

I'm afraid my equipment isn't exactly prototypically accurate on my little 12" gauge railroad... function over form, I suppose.  With that in mind, here is a bit of snowplowing using my crude plow (it just attaches to my little side-dump gravel car) pushed by my little boxcab locomotive:

At this point who cares about being "Prototypical Correct" the object is to get the snow off the tracks so I can run my trains! Great Video, looks like you had a lot of fun doing that! And Great Railroad!

FORMER OGR CEO - RETIRED posted:

I embedded both of these videos for you.

I sure wish you guys would EMBED your videos instead of just pasting URLs into your post. Makes for a more pleasant viewing experience.

The OP's title for this thread is"Clearing real snow from your tracks. This is good." It's not just GOOD, it is AMAZING!

How is it done ?

WindupGuy posted:

I'm afraid my equipment isn't exactly prototypically accurate on my little 12" gauge railroad... function over form, I suppose.  With that in mind, here is a bit of snowplowing using my crude plow (it just attaches to my little side-dump gravel car) pushed by my little boxcab locomotive:

 

Nifty video of a spiffy RR! 

 

But I have a question, WindupGuy:  where is the key that you use to wind up that little boxcab?

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