Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive !
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 03-01-2019 - 14:08

John Sweetser Wrote:
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> 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.

Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see a photo of it on the McCloud.

[mccloudriverrailroad.com]

The 208 new resides at the WPRM in Portola. They've plowed snow with it a few times.



Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! Cal-P 02-28-2019 - 18:07
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! Windsor 02-28-2019 - 18:49
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! Cal-P 02-28-2019 - 19:04
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! David Dewey 02-28-2019 - 22:26
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! OTN 02-28-2019 - 22:53
  OTN T.I.Runout 03-01-2019 - 00:20
  Re: OTN WAF 03-01-2019 - 06:44
  Re: OTN RR office engineer 03-02-2019 - 14:09
  Re: OTN WAF 03-02-2019 - 14:51
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! David Dewey 03-01-2019 - 12:36
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! WAF 03-01-2019 - 14:20
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! OPRRMS 02-28-2019 - 23:57
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! Windsor 03-01-2019 - 06:41
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! SPMW 211 03-01-2019 - 07:22
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! John Sweetser 03-01-2019 - 13:10
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! OPRRMS 03-01-2019 - 14:08
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! Windsor 03-01-2019 - 14:19
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! observer 03-01-2019 - 17:45
  Re: Old SP Roseville rotary snow plows are alive ! John 03-01-2019 - 19:48
  Oh the Sierras are alive with the sound of rotaries! Julie Andrews 03-01-2019 - 19:59


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