Train Snow Plowing Action in Minnesota
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- February of 2019 was one of the snowiest months on record for the State of Minnesota, and the railroads are certainly feeling it. In order to keep the tracks and ROW clear for trains, railroads across the state have been putting their plows to good use.
In this video, we'll follow a DM&E plow working its way over the Waseca Sub. It'll do some flange work, and widen the ROW in many places. In the end of the video, we'll also get a shot of UP running a former CNW plow down the Spine Line. Best part? These might run even more since larger storms are still in the forecast.
@CPKCrail #trains #snowplow #plowing
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A sincere thank you for these great videos from a disabled train nut that could never get out to see this magnificent work on my own.
I appreciate your kind words, and I'm glad that you enjoyed the video. The nice feedback such as this is great to hear. Thank you! :D
good luck to you Alice
@@kuntekircan thanks
@@kunaldahiya310 Did you just reply to yourself?
Alright then… 🤷
Watching from Queens 👸 NY. The engine is heavy & powerful. The heavy snow ⛄️ ❄️ is easily removed. Love ❤️ your video. Thank you 🙏 for uploading. I’ve subscribe.
Thanks for watching, and subscribing! I'm glad you liked it, and got to enjoy some snow plowing action.
Minnesota has a hell of a lot more to be concerned about than a little bit of snow on the railroad tracks. That state is going down the toilet faster than snowballs melt in the desert.
Got that right. I grew up in Minnesota, been gone for 55 years and glad of it. Too many fruits, nuts, and nitwits there now.
Yes the Canadians also came down and hooked our power up a few weeks ago in CT.
More than appreciated.
Wow... !!! My best friend, Wonderful upload! Keep it up! +thumb up3!
Why is train snow ploughing always so satisfying to watch?
I think part of it might have to do with how it makes such easy work of a typically hard task. Thanks for the comment!
“What man hath wrought...” Pretty cool. 😎
I actually started wondering about clearing tracks just recently with all the snow back East recently. Now I know.
They do it too to help keep the flangeways clear between the rails. That can cause ice to build up, and derailments IF it gets bad. Thanks for watching!
Very cool, thanks for sharing
Looks like a fun job!
Thanks for the comment! I bet it would be a bit of a thrill running a plow like that.
this is really cool
Glad you enjoyed the video! It was so cool to witness; thanks for the comment!
I live in South East Georgia and just don't see snow. As we get through days in the mid 90's and no relief in sight, this kind of video is sort of a guilty pleasure. Ah, I do have a question though......I see those big wings rolling the snow back from the track about 5 feet on each side. Why does the snow have to be cleared that far away from the tracks?
Kinda sad that these trains go near everyone's houses and no one interacts with them. Must have been cool when these lines were everywhere and took passengers.
Very nice
Thanks for watching, and the comment! This was really fun to chase, and shoot.
Nice video! Surprised you guys got a Safetran Type 1 eBell there!
Thank you for the comment, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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Nice catch!
Thanks for the comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@@SD457500 no problem! I just so happen to live west of Dover!
Oh sweet! Did you happen to see it on Sat? I know the line tends to get drifts just outside of Eyota, but I missed that area by a few minutes.
Doing snow removal. I find that relaxing. i could really get into this.
these videos are like pimple popping and blocked drains, once you star watching them you keep on watching them and could of been doing something better than watching it, ehehehehehehehe but always come back to watch more, 🤣👀😂🤣🤳🤷♂️🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦♂️
The heroes of the Zombie Apocalypse called, they want their train back!
Any idea what the horn on 5028 is? Sounds great.
Thanks for the comment!! I think it might be a K3HL horn.
Now why can’t we put that technology on our trains in England? 1/2 an inch of snow and it’s chaos here🙄
Nice
Thanks for the comment! I hope you enjoyed the video.
Hell I got a 2hp 18in snow blower that plows more than that.
Can't tell the difference!
I assume that all of that endless power is from batteries and electric motors. Not!
All from a two stroke diesel engine! :D Thanks for the comment, and watching!
I wonder what those houses thought
Thanks for watching! They probably thought, 'Oh wow, that's different!'
who had to wach this for school
Thanks for the comment! You guys did? Thats awesome! What was the topic about?
Does the cab of the snow plow have the controls for the locomotive in it? Curious how they do that.
Hunting is much fun
THE FACT IS::I HELPED WORK ON A SNOW PLOW BUT THERE WAS"T ANY SNOW I WAS WINTER THOUGH
Interesting
In my country snowfall doesn't come :(
I'm sorry; what country are you in? We can get a LOT of snow in Minnesota. Thanks for the comment!
@@SD457500 I live in Asia lol
I got this video in recommended btw
@@DeadwoodxPlayz Ahhhh, ok. Well I'm glad you enjoyed the video. :)
@@SD457500 ;) I just recongized that your the owner of the video.
Minnesnowda
As a Minnesotan, I fully support this play on the word with the snow. :D Thanks for the comment!
this but 1 hour long with bigger piles of snow
with out the honking
People living in adjacent houses are strangely deaf for some reason.
You see the small windows on top of the plow ? In early 1980's I was riding on a snow plow in Eastern Quebec (former Quebec Central RR) beetween Tring Jct.and Megantic. That track has been removed for at least 30 years. We got stuck and had snow over the plow. We were trapped in the pitch black plow's cabin for half an hour before the conductor and trainmen reached us with hand shovels. Fortunatly, some of you may know, the doors of these plows were designed to open to the inside ! Guess why? It is a hell of a good souvenir !!! Good old days, au plaisir !
oh really?
Elvis passed away
@@cynthiaquinn747 😂
@@cynthiaquinn747 How exactly is that related?
People in house. "Train is coming." "Ya, you betcha!"
Thanks for the comment! I bet you're talking about the house in the opening scene?
Hello, is it OK to feature your clip in a my chanel for educational purposes (so-called temporary copyright.)? You can stop me from using your content at any time and it will be deleted immediately.
It will be credited in the description & comments section with your name. Thanks, MM
HEY! i love your videos and i subbed my top two fav vids are the hi-rail, and the water bomber
My dude that's not how licensing works, you keep on with that and you'll get a lawsuit on your hands.
You gotta get the permission first before you use it - not say "hey can I use a clip you made? I'm already going to but I'll delete it if you go after me about it"
Looking at your channel more, compilations are *not covered* by fair use unless it's for "criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research" of which you do none.
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@@charleswilkins943 Mike’s got a point.
What great footage and having grown up in Rochester it's fun to see all the familiar towns along the Waseca Sub Route. I hope to catch something like this on the CP River Subdivision someday. How are you tracking train movements on the Waseca Sub? There's not as much traffic as their used to be years ago.
Old 14
Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them.
Praise ye the LORD.
1:40 One of the coolest pieces of tech I've seen recently. Thank you for sharing this 🤙🏾
Snow is always beautiful. It just the fridge digits that come later with it. 🌬️☃️❄️🏔️🌡️
First of all ,that was some heavy snow. Never seen that big snow in real life , really enjoyed the video ,thx. Do you have any videos related to locomotive overhauls ?
Thanks for the watching, and I'm glad that you enjoyed the video! I haven't done anything like that, but it would be something else if I could pull it off. I might be able to do make that happen in the future...
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Its always scary seeing cars stand and await for those monster machines to pass. I always wonder whether would some smart a** try to be faster and cross railtracks before train. It's never comfortable situation. Here in our country's ad campaign they say 'Train is always faster'. Btw I like how US trains use siren to warn people. That should be used in the EU too.
Bad news for you, here in France they warn at EACH crossing, with signs, barriers (majority), flashing lights, the train horn ringing : That doesn't stop people from trying to force their way, or just to be bad drivers.
You can warn people all you want about the danger of this or that : "Nah that's just fake news, conspiracies to take ma money !"
@@Eldrak1911 Your take on this is very realistic... Maybe too realistic... The FBI wants to know your location! oh wait...
@@pow-r_official They'll have to get in line ! I probably have already both our DGSE & DGSI on my back for a few years now.
Just kidding obviously, but a friend of mine use to say that one day GIGN will swat my home because as a GM, i'm used to make deep research on weapons of all sorts, calc sheets of damage models from them (not Screw theory, i'll probably go back to it some day), black powder, armor etc.
It's like what my grandpa always said about crossing the tracks when a train was coming..."In case of a tie, you lose."
i remember the winter of 2019 up here in MN. We got more snow in December than we had for the entirety of the 4 previous winters. It was a cold winter here too, the town I live in was seeing wind chills in the -75f range
That winter was brutal, and downright COLD! I don't mind the cold, as long as we have some snow, but the wind chills were insane... Thank you for the comment, and watching!
Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them.
Praise ye the LORD.
At 68 I'm still jumping up & down when I see this kind action
nicknorthable I’m happy you can still jump.
All the years living in Minnesota, never seeing trains plowing snow. That's pretty cool
Growing up in Rochester and traveling to Winona and La Crosse, I've never seen a snow plow train before. Great video
The plow wings are are swept further and further back as the train approaches the speed of sound.
Thanks for the comment! That's a fun way to look a it!
I can see that, haha.
you don't wanna fly away, when there is still snow on the tracks
Joseph Astier 🤠😉
He blew the horn yesterday,we are just hearing it
You really make my day
Someone got a new horn for Christmas...
Thanks for the comment. They really laid on the horn a lot for the plow train, had to make sure people knew they were coming.
@@SD457500 Yeah, people are dumb enough to not pay attention at grade crossings and that spreader could leave your car in two pieces, one on either side of the roadbed!
I wish I had one of those for my driveway.
Thanks for the comment! Wouldn't that be nice? You could plow your driveway in about a minute!
I don't think it would get everything.
SD457500 fh
I'm thinking about laying some track in mine!
I can't even fathom how much power that train would need to move that much snow, just unreal o.o
Probably less power than it takes to move a mile of boxcars.
That's Diesel fo you, same with trucks, the Diesel is what gives that power...
Never knew that train can sprout wings.
Red bull can give one wings! ;p. Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for the comment.
I never knew plow trains had a retractable plow. Cool. Thank you.
Love the horn on the plow sounds menacing and scary like something outta ones nightmares
Me too. I’m not sure what kind it is (Nathan K3HL perhaps?) but it sounds awesome.
I bet you could surf on the waves that wide plow makes ❄️🏄
Thanks for the comment! Now that would be interesting, and a sight.
I bet you could surf on the sound. I'm glad we don't have those near me.
What a beautiful place, that plow is amazing
It really is! Thank you for the comment, and watching!
I love your videos. I never thought about snow being cleared off train tracks, but then one of your videos showed up on my home page. I watched one, and I was hooked. It's fascinating and mesmerizing. That train with the plow extensions was awesome!! I didn't know there was such a thing. I grew up and live in New Jersey, so we don't get much snow. Thank you for making these videos.
Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them.
Praise ye the LORD.
I've noticed since I retired from the railroad they mounted the horns on the long hood of the locomotive instead of the cab roof. Many a snowy night I've spent hours clearing out the snow and ice as the horn stopped working, no horn can't cross public grade crossings. On the long hood the heat from the engine keeps the horn warm enough that the snow and ice melts allowing the horn to function if not perfectly it still functions.
Cheers!
Thanks for the comment! I bet it helps in the winter time with all of the heat coming off of the hood. It must be quieter for the crew too!
Around here there are cossings on city streets where there's a sign for motorists: "Warning No Train Horn" . I love it, a warning that there is no warning! 😂
Sick stuff! That was a great chase.
Thanks for the comment! Glad you were ale to make it. Remember how we had barley a minute to setup at the first spot?
2:35
Its only got 50 horsepower and A GILLION MILLION TORQUE!
Love to hear the Turbo on that EMD spool up and makeing the push💪💪.
This is really interesting .... I live in extreme northern Illinois, and, of course, we get Tons of snow here .... and I live next to railroad tracks and have Never seen one of these things!
Bez of wet snow, Canada and minisona is cold enough for dry snow
So I guess my little 4 wheeler with the plow blade isn't so cool after all.
Thanks for the comment! Sorry, but I think the plow in the video is just a wee bit cooler then a four wheeler. :p
My dad grew up in Inver Grove Heights, MN. Excellent video, love seeing Canadian Pacific coming through Minnesota.
I am from big Toronto area we can also see train plowing
Ha ha in London we get a leaf on the track and the whole country halts to a standstill.
Haha, just the same here in North Germany. More than one snowflake causes a traffic collapse.
Haha, Junction Switch in Inver Grove, spent many hours rail fanning there as I used to live a quarter mile away XD
That's cool, and you must know that location very well! Thank you for watching!
It's really impressive how these trains can keep on pushing snow without skidding on the tracks. I live in the north so I know how hard snow can be to plow. Amazing machines!
They are enormously heavy.
They use sand also for friction on the rails
@@ogmudbone619 never heard of them doing that over here, maybe it's a thing
that has to be the most exciting and fun job ever! Keeps you on your toes I bet! I would love that job.
Thanks for the comment! I bet it would keep the crew on their toes, one wrong move could cause a derailment!
@@SD457500 and wipe out a crossing or a sign!
Good yar
Saw this every winter growing up . The Erie line ran through my back yard, 50yrds from my house.
Do you know which line?
Erie Lackawanna
@@jc6565 That's the same one my family worked for.
The weather outside is so delightful, let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let it Snow ! Thumbs Up, and Happy Saturday also.
I hope you had a good weekend too! I love the play on the words you did there, and thanks for the comment.
@@SD457500
You are welcome also.
🚂🚂 THIS WAS SOME INCREDIBLE VIDEO 👍 I'VE SEEN THESE PLOW TRAINS SIT IDLE AT THE B&M BUT I NEVER SAW THEM IN ACTION THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTENTION 👍🇺🇸
I live in Wisconsin, and I've never seen one of these in real life. Thanks for the video.
Great to see Union Pacific 1766 still running. Union Pacific probably has I would say roughly 10 to 15 SD40 - 2 still running
Thanks for the comment. UP has actually rebuilt most of their 40-2 fleet into SD40Ns, so thankfully, many of these are still out and roaming the rails.
I have lived in MN all my life, and only seen this type of plowing done a handful of times, its pretty cool...Really Cool, They stopped so you could get a good look at it! The Plow Unit has a diesel engine to run hydraulics, and provide electric for lights, and heat for the cabin, but I don't think it can move itself, it doesn't seem its very heavy, makes sense they would use an Engine to push it...
I like watching the plows here in my home state. I live in south Florida, have not seen one in 60 years.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I was hoping to get one this year, but we had a lighter winter season.
It is about time somebody had a snow plow video from this winter. Thanks
Thanks for the comment! If we keep getting snow into March, we might get even more plow action!
How does anyone live in such cold places like this and live like it everyday and night year in and year out. Great video by the way but man those train horns are so loud.
Born into it ...simply
It isn't like this every day and night, year in and year out.. this is Minnesota, not Antarctica.
I'm from about an hr from where it was filmed. Yeah in my opinion there's about 10 days a year where its just to cold to do anything and likewise with heat. Example today in southern mn the real feel is about 95 with dewpoint of 72. It's pretty miserable too! I definitely couldn't handle areas of the south.
Train horn code for crossing a road. Two longs, a short and a long. Other engineers can tell who is driving by the way they sound this code. Yeah, I know, who cares?
always nice to learn something..
Thanks for the comments; that is correct for the horn blowing sequence when it comes to grade crossings in the US and Canada.
In addition to the grade sequence there's one other horn signal that nobody EVER wants to hear at a crossing and that is the emergency blast due to a vehicle being in the path of the locomotive , hearing the horn blaring continuously is a terrifying sad time because the person on the tracks will more than likely be losing their life.
0:42 when the movie cuts to a scary mysterious scene !
Close your eyes for a better experience
Great video! Beautiful white snow! Thanks for the video! It is also often very cold and snowy in Moscow!
3:57 idk why but i was hoping the driver didnt stop when he saw the camera man lol
Schadenfroide resides in all of us - those who love watching others suffer.
Ha ha ha! I was lined up with the crossing arm, and as it got closer was getting more and more nervous...
My Grandpa Mike and Uncle Ed were both switchyard foremen for the Canadian Pacific in Winnipeg; my dad put telephone/telegraph poles in with a post-hole digger (manually) on the rail line in Manitoba. He said they got to their worksite using the wheeled railroad handcar. He was also a freight checker for Canadian National, and slugged a lot of freight in Chicago's railyards, while working his way through school. My mom's folks are from Minnesota, and we've lived there during a blizzard which came up to the eaves of our house in 1960. Be safe doing your essential and dangerous work!
Great video. There is something about snow plows, they are mean and scary looking. Boy, that is a lot of snow, I love Florida.
Thanks for the comment!! It was a lot of snow, and now its all starting to melt and flood. :/
I love south Georgia
Love this video great footage
Thanks for the comment! I'm glad that you enjoyed it; it was well worth the drive down there, and chase, to shoot it.
Should have kept following the DME/CP line down to Dutchmans Crossing East of Lewiston. Would have been neat to see it go around that bend.
I would have, but they ended up derailing east of Utica. ;/ Thanks for watching!
Dude that's awesome canadian pacific is always good looking in snow
Their red paint really stands out against the white snow! Thanks for watching!
Love to see those plows work. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Just to show how ignorant I am, I had never seen a plow engine with the outrigger chutes before. That is just plain awesome!!
Don't feel ignorant about it, seeing an active plow can be pretty rare. I appreciate the comment, and glad you enjoyed it!
@@SD457500 I absolutely loved it and thank you so much for making it available!
When I was a youngster, I got involved with H/O ga. race cars.
One of my cousins got into model railroading. I thought it was pretty cool, but it went WAY too slow for me. I had no more interest in anything in modeling.
My main internet connection is on my smartphone as we have no computer. But when I saw and heard that the Big Boys, 844 and 4014 were up and operational, I decided to take a peak.
After just a little surfing, I found one of them chugging and I "almost had an 'organism'!" 😉😆
Even though the sound was coming out of the little speaker in my phone, it just plain sounded like pure power!! I tried to imagine standing anywhere near it and feeling the engine throbs coming through my feet and ears and the percussive sound waves bouncing off of my chest!
WOW! I only wish that I could have been there!!
When I was a pre-pubescent boy, I had already started working for farmers. Plowing, disking, planting, baling, etc. I learned tractoring on Allis-Chalmers and John Deere tractors, but the biggest and baddest tractor was an ancient two cylinder John Deere tractor that only the farmer was allowed to touch. Even his three sons were not allowed. The only change from original production was rubber rear tires instead of steel "spiked" or steel "cleated" rims. Compared to the Allis, International-Harvester and smaller Deere's, that thing was a "beast!" I swear if he had a large enough chain, he could have pulled their large farmhouse off of it's foundation! (OK, I am exaggerating slightly to a man that knows about locomotives, but I have nothing else to compare!)
Charley always kept a large tomato can on the exhaust pipe; he did not trust the flapper to stay seated in a windy storm. The closest thing to the Big Boys is when he would start that thing up. It sounded like an old single cyl. "hit-or-miss" pump compressor. When it first started to fire, we could always expect about 6-8 perfect, thick smoke rings shooting straight up.
Well I apologize for going on and on. I guess just thinking about those unbelievably awesome engines made me a little "loco"-motive. 😊
Thank you for your corresponding. It was fun!
Did you mean Manitoba instead of Minnesota? Why would Canadian Pacific be plowing snow in the US, I know we have railroad snow plow equipment?
Thanks for watching, and the comment! CP took over the Dakota Minnesota & Eastern RR in 2008, and a large portion of that track is in Southern Minnesota, USA. CP also owns and operates over the former Soo Line, so its very common to see CP trains in MN, and other parts of the USA.
I've watched several train plow videos and this is the first with those side plow things. Cool.
Matt Foley there called wings
Thanks for the comment! Yes, Ada152513 is correct, they are called wings and the RR use's them to push snow away from the tracks, and to cut through large difts.
I am glad I don't work night shift and live in that house. :) I have plowed snow on a railroad though. We could usually keep the mainline open with our ballast regulator and wings. I enjoyed plowing snow.
@:20.
Thanks for the comment! I bet it was an experience plowing snow on the railroad, looks like a neat operation! Yeah, I wouldn't want to work nights and live their either. :)
@@SD457500 I was a lot younger then. It was a full time job (Trackman) but we got a two to three month layoff from 1/15 to 3/25. Best job I ever had.
So awesome to see 5028 down there in MN... used to seeing it up here in Vancouver, BC, hauling stuff around with a sister unit!
Thanks for the comment! Those SD30C-ECOs are neat to see leading, and working trains around here. Sometimes a few of them escape from Canada. :p
An awesome sight! Better get out of the way or get blown away! Minnesota is the ideal place for railfan train watching in winter!
You got that right, and we have a lot of variety too! Thanks for the comment.
5:36 little bit of flexing
Thanks for the comment! Yeah, they were a very friendly crew!
What's the horn on that sucker called? Sounds sick. Awesome video!
I bet the UP's plow train is lead by GE ES44AC and an SD40-2... I hope that's correct now...😀😀😀
Thanks for the comment!! You're so close! The GE is an AC44 and the second is a rebuilt SD40-2,
now called an SD40N. UP rebuilt their 40-2s into 40Ns. The N stands for the new computer system they installed on them.
@@SD457500 So, the SD40N is the SD40-2 that not retired, but rebuilt with newest computer system...?? Just like SD59MX??
@@arifsukirno3687 Essentially, yes, but with essentially no changes to the original car body on the power.
@@SD457500 I hope the 3985 Challenger has on the rail again.... I wish I can watch her with all her wheels running. 😍😍😍
Are the side wings to prevent snow from blowing back on the tracks?
Thank you for the comment! The wings are there to help push the snow back a good distance so it helps to prevent drifts from building up, and hard packed snow.
I didn’t know that the Canadians Plowing snow in Minnesota
Thanks for the comment! Very much so, we've had a lot of snow this year.
CP owns the Dakota Minnesota Eastern(DME) Iowa Chicago Eastern(ICE)and SOO line (SOO/MILW) in the midwest... I think a couple DME/ICE SD 40-2s may still be around on CP un repainted or in lease hold hands
All of the ICE power is LONG gone. Nearly all of the ICE units, with a few exceptions, disappeared in May of 2014 when the RCP&E formed. The ICE GP60s went back on lease return in August of 2012. The DM&E power lingered on a little while longer, but there are no DME 40s left in service. I believe only one DME geep, the 3801, is still in active service. The other geeps are stored.
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I love Minnesota,with all that snow you should be Canadian.
So cool to see this.thank you to whoever videotaped and posted this.
I appreciate the comment, and kind words! I was the one who shot this video, and I'm happy you enjoyed watching it. It was a fun, and exciting day going after this.
Thanks for the video. I have never seen them use the side wings like that. Super cool.
Thanks for the comment, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! It sure is a neat sight to see.
I'm a Jersey girl who was one of the baby boomers. The snow we have now now 2019 is NOTHING like we had when I was a child. We had BLIZZARD back then.
Thanks for the comment! I could only imagine how that would be; I've heard the winters of 77 and 78 were brutal.