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Identifier: boysbookofrailro00crum (find matches)
Title: The boys' book of railroads
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Crump, Irving, 1887-1979
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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■-bo O U £ C0) £ o II I5 b£ a THE WRECKING TRAIN 211 bolted to the front of a locomotive to the hugerotary plows that are employed by the bigwestern roads, and which can cut through driftshigher than the average dwelling with as muchease as the flange plows of the eastern roadspush aside a six-inch fall of snow. The rotary snow-plow is an ingenious piece ofmechanism that has been developed by Ameri-can railroad genius to fight the storms of winterand help the men keep the line open. It is inreality a huge sucking fan driven by a powerfulengine that pushes its way into a snow-drift andliterally eats through it, sucking the snow inand spraying it out through a huge nozzle at theside which throws a stream of snow away fromthe right-of-way that would bury a house inshort order. Pushed forward by two or three heavy loco-motives, these plows can conquer almost anydrift if given time, and few are the storms thatcan snow in these mountain divisions nowadaysand hold them blocked for any l

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