From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com   
      
   "Joseph D. Korman"  writes:   
      
   >On 1/30/2015 6:02 PM, conklin wrote:   
   >> "Joseph D. Korman"  wrote in message   
   >> news:rb-dnbndi8NwV1bJnZ2dnUU7-S2dnZ2d@earthlink.com...   
      
   >>> 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.   
      
   Boston borrowed two of them for the last storm.  They had a picture of   
   one of them on the local TV news.   
      
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