Steam is billowing out of everywhere, they're just this massive piece of infrastructure, it's like taming the elements with an unholy union of water and fire - natural enemies in the wild, and you get to feel like a hero because you're helping people get to places.

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[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yo I heard you like trains that go through snow…

That’s a Union Pacific Rotary Snow Plow. 17 feet / 5.2 meters tall. 150 RPM. It’s not self-propelled and had to be pushed by 4 locomotives. It was used in Wyoming up into the 1990s to cut 14 foot / 4.25 meter wide paths through the snow.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

what happened to it, do they just not run those routes anymore?

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

It was pretty old, I think from the 50s or 60s.