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Other Jordan Products
Not to many people relise that the O.F. Jordan Company also built some other products including a Wedge Plow and a Ballast Cleaner.

Jordan Wedge Plows
In the early 1960s, Jordan tried to market a wedge Plow. This plow looked very much like previous offerings by the Russell Car & Snowplow company. The main difference was the fact that the Jordan plow used an all welded car body, but the Russell was all riveted. Thus this is one of the main spotting differences. Jordan Wedge Plows also had the brake gear mounted on the rear of the car, and not the roof. As per advertisements, Jordan offered there wedge plow in either single or double track, and with a flanger mounted ahead of the rear truck or a drop nose flanger. It might be possible that Jordan received the patents from Russell when they went out of business or if this was just a spin off of there plow. We do know that very few were built, less then 12. Included in this is the Pere Marquette plows ( later C&O ), a MEC unit, a B&M unit and a CN unit ( CN 55614 ). At least one of these is preserved so far and that is C&O 914025, ex PM SP-25 and is owned by the Western New York Railway Historical society.

C&O 914020, a Typical Jordan Wedge. Jonathon Leese Photo

A builders photo of MEC 90. This plow is now stationed in Rigby Yard in Portland Maine. From the collection of John C. LaRue Jr.

Jordan Ballast Cleaner
In 1945, Jordan made a Ballast Cleaner. This was truly an odd looking peice of equipment. Very little is know about this machine, other then the fact that only 1 ( to the best knowledge found ) was built, and it ended up going to A.T.S.F. Railway in 1945, Being numbered 199210.

ATSF 199210 in East Chicago Indiana. from the collection of John C. LaRue Jr.

Another view of the 199210, but in working position. from the collection of John C. LaRue Jr.

Jordan Push Plows
This is yet another area lacking information. Jordan built a set of Wedge/Push plows for the Illinois Central Railroad, built on gondolas. These plows had a very high nature to them. It is very much possible Jordan just built the plows and attached them to the gondola's supplied by the railroad. So far there are at least 11 Jordan plows in the IC/ICG/CC roster, of the X-80xx numbering series. IC also has a plow, # 101225 and it is a 3 bay open hopper, with a Jordan push plow mounted to it.

A builders photo of IC X-8046. from the collection of John C. LaRue Jr.

Jordan Track Oiler
The Jordan Track Oiler was a machine that came out in the early 1930s. The point of the oiler was to do just that, oil track joints in the days before welded rail came about. It also was an anti-corrosion method. The oiler looks just like a track speeder but a shy longer. It also had a cart it pulled to hold oil. It was powered by a small four cylinder engine. The machine was also able to pull a standard sized tank car to hold more oil. The oil was sprayed to each side of the rail web, and also had extra hoses to spray oil where the sprayers could not reach. So far we have seen examples of Illinois Central and M-K-T Track Oilers.

A Jordan Track Oiler. from the collection of John C. LaRue Jr.

Jordan "Twin-Type" Snowplow
This is the one machine that almost NO history can be found on. The Twin Type. This plow appeared in a 1953 ad but thats about it. We are nto sure if it was even built! The Twin Type was marketed as a plow for a road that didnt have the ability to turn equipment, thus it had plows on each end. with a long central operators cabin.

The Jordan "Twin-Type"

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