by St-Jean Diamond
After seeing locomotives spit out snow from everywhere after encounters with snow drifts and snowbanks, I wondered how bad it is to the internals of a GE locomotive. Why GE? Because I heard lots of stories on these beast on being fragile concening snow; is this true true?
Here are examples of snow battling to illustate my point (and what a show it was!) :
http://www.rail-videos.net/video/view.php?id=1422
http://www.rail-videos.net/video/view.php?id=1646
and for desert:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 004&nseq=1
Here are examples of snow battling to illustate my point (and what a show it was!) :
http://www.rail-videos.net/video/view.php?id=1422
http://www.rail-videos.net/video/view.php?id=1646
and for desert:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 004&nseq=1
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