There has previously been:
1 single track Russell Plow at Woodland.
1-2 single track Russell Plow(s) at Northern Maine Jct.
2 single track Russell Plows at Waterville.
1 single track Russell Plow and 1 Jordan Spreader at Rigby.
This is all former MEC equipment in the MEC M70-99 series. The plow from Woodland migrated back to the main network in the fall of 2012, following the sale of trackage to Woodland Rail. Northern Maine was down to 1 Russell, and may or may not currently still host that. Waterville and Rigby both have their allotments of 2. The "extra" equipment from NMJ and Woodland is most likely at Waterville.
There are 2 gray plows (Walthers just released a model of them) in Pan Am paint. One each at Waterville and Rigby. Everything else is still in ratty MEC green, the D-2/3 stuff is in B&M blue.
This storm should be big enough to call out the plows, especially to clear sidings and other tracks that don't see frequent enough use to keep clear during the storm. While ~24" is a good storm, it's not going to be a huge problem. Really, once you get 8 or 10 anything more is the same. They'll have to run some plow extras and spend Wednesday digging switches, but shouldn't be too bad especially coming off the warm stretch that took much of the snow pack.
I know I'm glad the banks shrank, something like this is greatly complicated by big banks when you run out of room to put snow.
1 single track Russell Plow at Woodland.
1-2 single track Russell Plow(s) at Northern Maine Jct.
2 single track Russell Plows at Waterville.
1 single track Russell Plow and 1 Jordan Spreader at Rigby.
This is all former MEC equipment in the MEC M70-99 series. The plow from Woodland migrated back to the main network in the fall of 2012, following the sale of trackage to Woodland Rail. Northern Maine was down to 1 Russell, and may or may not currently still host that. Waterville and Rigby both have their allotments of 2. The "extra" equipment from NMJ and Woodland is most likely at Waterville.
There are 2 gray plows (Walthers just released a model of them) in Pan Am paint. One each at Waterville and Rigby. Everything else is still in ratty MEC green, the D-2/3 stuff is in B&M blue.
This storm should be big enough to call out the plows, especially to clear sidings and other tracks that don't see frequent enough use to keep clear during the storm. While ~24" is a good storm, it's not going to be a huge problem. Really, once you get 8 or 10 anything more is the same. They'll have to run some plow extras and spend Wednesday digging switches, but shouldn't be too bad especially coming off the warm stretch that took much of the snow pack.
I know I'm glad the banks shrank, something like this is greatly complicated by big banks when you run out of room to put snow.
