Snowy February on the railroad

February 2019, Wisconsin.

There's enough snow to be plowed. I used to rate 4 school closings = one good snow plowing for the railroad. Although, this year, schools have been closed for cold as much as they have been closed for snow.
By March 2, we have had 11 inches and 9 inches and 6 inches and 5 inches of snow. Central Wisconsin has over 50 inches, somewhere, but it packed down.

This ballast regulator was plowing the west side of Rapids and headed out on the Taylor sub.
(I don't call this a Sno Fyter; the snow blower is not mounted on the rear, its just a sweeper) I didn't get a picture of them really plowing; I had to no time to stay hear.

There's plenty of plowed piles where endloaders push snow.

Big snow flakes.

A jet blower cleans switches by the Rapids roundhouse

We had ice followed by snow, which downed some trees and caused 3 hours of power outages

There's plenty of piles of snow.
And its hard to find a parking space, some are full of snow banks.

My front yard has snow banks .

Here's some links to railroad snow plowing pictures from years past.
They are not linked to this page, so use BACK to return to here.

Kershaw snow plow in 2008

snow removal in the Point yard with endloaders and dump trucks in 2014
and that's the way it was also happening in Feb 2019, too.

an Alco plowing snow in Minnesota in 1977

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This page was filmed and wrote in February and early March, 2019