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packman

(16,296 posts) Mon Mar 3, 2014, 04:19 PM Mar 2014

Plowing right through

Trains don't take no shit from no snow- 2 min. of pushing the white stuff around-skip to 50 sec. mark for the nitty gritty of it

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Plowing right through (Original Post) packman Mar 2014 OP

What's a little snow when you have 6,000 horsepower and weigh 200 tons? Scuba Mar 2014 #1

Someone mentioned to me today about Amtrak routes over the Rockies closed because of deep snow. hedgehog Mar 2014 #2

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

1. What's a little snow when you have 6,000 horsepower and weigh 200 tons?

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 04:24 PM

Mar 2014

hedgehog

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2. Someone mentioned to me today about Amtrak routes over the Rockies closed because of deep snow.

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 05:07 PM

Mar 2014

(i'm not sure if this is accurate.) It seems to me that I read of mountain tunnels and snow sheds built in the 19th century to keep the rails open all winter that were abandoned in the 20th century. Have you any comments on this?

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