Steam Powered Rotary Snowplow at Snoqualmie - Walkaround

Walk-around a steam-powered snowplow. Now with Extra Tender! From the Northwest Railway Museum website: "Rotary Snowplow #10 was built in 1907 by Alco-Cooke for the Northern Pacific Railway. It was used to clear snow from the railway line over Stampede Pass in Washington's Cascade mountain range. Typically, it spent summers in Auburn and winters in Lester, up near the pass. Rotary snowplows are considered the big guns of snow fighting and were used to clear deep snow. Consequently some years the rotary did not see any service. Today a handful of rotary plows remain in service for exceptionally heavy snow falls but are powered with electric motors, not steam. The "rotary" name refers to a large wheel on the front of the unit. This wheel spins at approximately 60 RPM and captures snow in a series of scoops. Centrifugal force then propels the snow out the top and off to one side of the track or the other. Power to spin the wheel comes from a steam engine located inside the car body. The plow is not self propelled and must be pushed by a locomotive." First Snow by Scott Buckley |   / scottbuckley   Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...