SP MW221 is an ALCo (Cooke) Rotary Snow Plow used for clearing the heaviest snow covering the tracks over Southern Pacific's Donner Pass tracks. This is a Leslie-type plow, built in 1922. Taken 4/96 at (then) SP's Roseville, Ca. yard.
SP MW221 is an ALCo (Cooke) Rotary Snow Plow used for clearing the
heaviest snow covering the tracks over Southern Pacific's Donner Pass tracks.
This is a Leslie-type plow, built in 1922. Taken 4/96 at (then) SP's Roseville,
Ca. yard.
Nevada State Railroad Museum No.8, an 1888 Cooke 4-4-0 American.
The locomotive is in operating condition (and doing so in this picture).
Picture was taken July 4th, 1995.
Nevada State Railroad Museum No.25, a 1905 Baldwin 2-8-0 Consolidation
ready to take on water. It is operating with No.8 on the day the picture
was taken.
Ex-Western Pacific 921D, a F7A at the Portola Railroad Museum, Portola,
Ca. This train used to pull the California Zephyr. Taken 4/6/95.
A Union Pacific snow plow at the Portola Railroad Museum.