Old Conrail Spreaders

[Engineer James]

I saw again the CR jordan spreader. #22564. Was yellow, I thought they would use it where they had more snow? Had 2 Alberta clippers come in bringing heavy snow (1') at least to our area. Saw a new Geep hooked up and it was hauling (backwords) toward the Plymouth Diamond. Amazing!!! Sucker was flying at least 60, although the speed limit i thoguth was 45.

[SRS125]

could be using it to spread ballast or maybe to widen some ditches someplace?

[Engineer James]

Not really any ditches... It was in yellow paint though.

[SRS125]

thats standard color for all the Conrail spreaders well yellow or yellow/orange mustard color has been that way since Penn Central as far as I can remember.

(Edited by CR)

[Engineer James]

Ahhh... But, still I hgave not seen it since this summer... it is odd... why use an old jordan in the summer and not winter? Funny

[SRS125]

They can be used to spread out ballest and for doing ditches in the summer I have seen this done many times. Weather or not these ideas were intended for a snow plow or not I have no clue but the railroads do some crazy things which don't suprise me anymore.

[Nova55]

Jordans were built from teh factory as Spreaders, Ditchers, Ice Cutters, Bank Builders, Plows, Ballast Spreaders, Bank Wideners and more. Info straight from Jordan literature. .