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Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive !
Author: John Sweetser
Date: 03-01-2019 - 13:10
David Dewey wrote:
> I remember seeing the last SP all-steam rotary being prepped in the Dunsmuir yards to go to the McCloud River to get them out of a snow jam, and that SP offered to leave it with them, but they turned it down and the unit was sent for electrification after it was returned. Around 1967?
No. 208 was the last steam rotary snowplow on the SP, with its final operation under steam on March 2-March 3, 1969 to clear the McCloud Railroad's Ponderosa branch. It also did a limited amount of plowing of SP tracks at Mount Shasta City on March 2 while on the way to the Ponderosa branch. No. 208 was converted to electric operation in 1970.
> I remember seeing the last SP all-steam rotary being prepped in the Dunsmuir yards to go to the McCloud River to get them out of a snow jam, and that SP offered to leave it with them, but they turned it down and the unit was sent for electrification after it was returned. Around 1967?
No. 208 was the last steam rotary snowplow on the SP, with its final operation under steam on March 2-March 3, 1969 to clear the McCloud Railroad's Ponderosa branch. It also did a limited amount of plowing of SP tracks at Mount Shasta City on March 2 while on the way to the Ponderosa branch. No. 208 was converted to electric operation in 1970.
