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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA fast way to shovel snow...use a locomotive
EPIC CATCH!!! Dashing Thru the Snow - CN Train 406 West at Salisbury, NB (Feb 3, 2015)
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I shoveled this weekend for a couple of hours, this took a few seconds!
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A fast way to shovel snow...use a locomotive (Original Post)
BunnyMcGee
Feb 2021
OP
There's a vid on YouTube of a plow in operation and the audio indicates they have a chase vehicle...
A HERETIC I AM
Feb 2021
#4
I think I would be white knuckled on the break and throttle thinking of the possibilities.
BunnyMcGee
Feb 2021
#5
3catwoman3
(24,046 posts)1. IFR.
Instrument flight rules.
BunnyMcGee
(464 posts)2. Really! I wondered too about the engineer seeing the signals
A HERETIC I AM
(24,377 posts)4. There's a vid on YouTube of a plow in operation and the audio indicates they have a chase vehicle...
With a guy on the radio who can clearly see what is ahead, and talking to the engineer. Telling him its OK to accelerate, etc.
I looked but I cant find it.
But it seems to me that if they need to call out a plow, it is safe to say they have a clear and open line!
BunnyMcGee
(464 posts)6. I think, these days, a belief in technology, ie. crossing gates.
Smaller roads could use a spotter, I've heard of that.
brush
(53,871 posts)3. Holy crap. Good thing the train was on rails because how could...
the engineer see through that cloud of snow? And that sure was a long train.
BunnyMcGee
(464 posts)5. I think I would be white knuckled on the break and throttle thinking of the possibilities.