From: joekor@earthlink.net
On 1/30/2015 6:02 PM, conklin wrote:
> "Joseph D. Korman" wrote in message
> news:rb-dnbndi8NwV1bJnZ2dnUU7-S2dnZ2d@earthlink.com...
>> On 1/26/2015 3:55 PM, conklin wrote:
>>> Amtrak has posted that it keeps diesels in the NE in case the electrity
>>> were
>>> to go off during this winter's storm.
>>>
>>> That got me wondering: did RRs in the past prepare better for snow than
>>> today? I remember the large rotary plows. Are they still in use?
>>> Besides
>>> solar plows, does Amtrak have any way of clearing snow?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The NYC Transit Authority and the LIRR have a few of these:
>>
>> http://www.thejoekorner.com/photos/nyctind/P016506.jpg
>>
>> This one is at the Rockaway Park yard in Queens.
>>
>
> Thanks for the picture. How often do they use the snow blower?
>
>
When needed. The TA also runs extra trains on the open cut lines. If
you haven't been following this winter in NYC, all of the MTA systems
were closed down by 11:00PM Sunday 1/26. the storm came up the coast
about 50 miles to the east and only the outer part of Long Island got
hit with the predicted heavy snow.
But the following week there was a snow/ice/snow storm that for which
they didn't shut down and a #7 train got stalled on icy third rails and
trains got caught behind it.
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