The Trains In Snow thread

[tomustang]

Post them up, since it's that time...

[Charlie B]

Enon Valley, Jan 1978

[doctorwayne]

Smithville, Ontario - winter of 1976:


Wayne

[Wayne R]

A couple of shots of ON Rail train #211 going through Kirkland Lake, Ontario on its way to Noranda Quebec. I took these last year or the year before.


Wayne Reid


   

   

[csiguy68]

Southfork,Pa. January 2009.

Todd

[Charlie B]

Christmas train at the Kiski Junction, 2003, too much snow for people to even get to us.

[cn nutbar]

Great thread Tom---excellent pictures Everyone---here's a few more pictures from the late 80's/early 90's taken in Hamilton Ontario

[bdw9535]

Two from Millville, NJ March 2009

Bruce

[Charlie B]

Tom, this was a great idea for a thread. Here is one from February of 1979. the winters of 77-79 were just plain brutal, no other word for them.
Charlie

[Sarge]

[bdw9535]

Winslow, NJ March 1995

Bruce

[MasonJar]

Can't take credit for this one - it's from the open media files at www8.cpr.ca (holiday train):

   

And to be fair to the other national railway, here are some CNR shots from the archives at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.imagescn.technomuses.ca/index1.html">http://www.imagescn.technomuses.ca/index1.html</a><!-- m -->

Cold water stop on the prairies (?):
   

Digging out a caboose circa 1951:
   

It seems as if no amount of digging will free this engine...
   


Brrrrr....!!

Andrew

[Puddlejumper]

That actually looks to me like a plow they are digging out rather than a caboose. And wow, that lokie is buried good!

[MasonJar]

That actually looks to me like a plow they are digging out rather than a caboose. And wow, that lokie is buried good!

You're right... The end you can see doesn't look "caboose-ish". :?: That's what the caption says, but expect you are right based on the following info:

#55231 is/was a wedge plow <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cnlines.ca/CNcyclopedia/misc/img_55231.jpg">http://cnlines.ca/CNcyclopedia/misc/img_55231.jpg</a><!-- m -->. And 55432: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=376968">http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPict ... ?id=376968</a><!-- m -->

Of course, this all begs the question, "when the plow is stuck..."

Andrew

[eightyeightfan1]

Famous picture from the Blizzard of 1888.
Central New England, actually the Connecticut and North Western at that time, loco plowing through a snow drift outside Norfolk, Connecticut.

Actually this is a copy of this picture I bought at the Springfield Show some years back.