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Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 11:05 am

Kelly, what's that thing attached to the plow?

bory2502 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 11:37 am

I am still trying to dig out just to get down there to work.

Chris Edwards

Reading T1 2124 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 11:43 am

Richard Glueck wrote:

Kelly, what's that thing attached to the plow?

Where are you looking? I'm assuming you don't mean 8618.

junior · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 12:17 pm

Richard Glueck wrote:

Kelly, what's that thing attached to the plow?

It's called a D-I-E-S-E-L.

Apparently, they replaced steam many decades ago, but Strasburg is not up with the times always....

Which is a good thing.

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:48 pm

Darn! I wonder if those things will catch on. Hope not!

mldeets · **Joined:** Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:06 am **Posts:** 381

Forgive me if I draw too fine a point, but isn't that red thing supposed to be moving the snow? (insert smart aleck smilie)

I hope all goes well & stays on the rails....mld

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6468

Reading T1 2124 wrote:

Richard Glueck wrote:

Kelly, what's that thing attached to the plow?

Where are you looking? I'm assuming you don't mean 8618.

Since it looks like the diesel and plow are travelling from right to left in the photo, Dick might have been asking if 8618 has a pilot plow on the front end. Does it?

Les

Randy Gustafson · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:29 pm

I was half-expecting that you'd get a frantic call to go to Paradise and just keep going east with that wedge plow until you got to NYC, or at least Zoo.

Remember that at one time, LIRR had a rotary plow. And this appears to be the record snowfall in a lot of places.

Kimball · **Joined:** Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:00 pm **Posts:** 71

But Kelly, do you have a 12" gauge plow too?

philip.marshall · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:11 pm

Randy Gustafson wrote:

Remember that at one time, LIRR had a rotary plow.

A neat photo of which from 1900 was posted on Facebook the other day by the Suffolk County [NY] Historical Society: https://www.facebook.com/SuffolkCountyHistory/photos/a.430164486150.228283.153860881150/10153913729921151/?type=3&theater
The photographer, Hal B. Fullerton, was the LIRR's Special Agent (translation: PR man) at the turn of the last century and was responsible for much of the railroad's promotional photography. The Suffolk County Historical Society holds the bulk of his negatives.

The plow itself is now at Steamtown, but in pretty poor condition.

-Philip Marshall

LVRR2095 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:26 am

Kimball wrote:

But Kelly, do you have a 12" gauge plow too?

I'm not sure why they would need a 12" gauge plow....the Cagney is 15" gauge.

Rick Rowlands · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:50 pm

The J&L Narrow Gauge will have no problem keeping our line clear with this plow.

elecuyer · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:59 pm

Hot Metal wrote:

The J&L Narrow Gauge will have no problem keeping our line clear with this plow.

So *you* were the one who ended up with that contraption. Several folks suggested it for the WW&F, but we declined.

hamster · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2016 4:53 pm

elecuyer wrote:

Hot Metal wrote:

The J&L Narrow Gauge will have no problem keeping our line clear with this plow.

So *you* were the one who ended up with that contraption. Several folks suggested it for the WW&F, but we declined.

The WWF??!! I didn't know that those guys were into railroading!

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