Railroad Jet Powered Snow Remover

[bluecollarboiler]

burns out last summer's weeds too :-)

[skinkboyz]

your momma is so fat she blows hr hair with that

[joecool248]

this is the boring way :(

[IXIArblargIXI]

Wouldn't it be smarter to work in the opposite direction and combine the jet engine with the way the wheels are rolling...I mean that may be more energy efficient...

[Ikeepitreelz]

@IXIArblargIXI Totally agree , they are working against the turbine exhaust

[trainman25ict]

thats one way to clear the frogs

[mrcutfish]

HoBo hair dryer

[robertgift]

Does this do anything useful whatsoever?

[freeskier04]

@robertgift Right? I mean it's barely doing anything!

[hiddenasskiker]

thats more like a ice remover than snow remover lol

[FLPst0neR]

I normally use a shovel, but this works too I suppose...

[MarvinDesire]

anti suicide, jump infront and get blown away :)

[macman216]

and what do u do sir, "i blow dry train tracks". 

[killersushi99]

Excuse me sir could you stop for a moment. I need to blow dry my hair.

[beammeupscottie7]

thats soo pointless

[rounddot5827]

jump in front of it

[Sp33dy312]

thats one of the town that dont need a crossing or warning bells, cuz they already have one

[ididi9]

I like the Idea that people have been hard at work clearing the roads and a snow blowing comes along and sprays all the snow off the train tracks onto the roads

[gebass6]

I've seen that before,although not while it was fired up.

[chevydodgetrucks]

World's largest leaf blower!

[TheZeke1974]

LOL that thing is bad ass!!!!!!

[chclough]

My guess is that its not so much for snow removal but for deicing the track

[Farva1239]

@chclough wrong sorry but we use them to blow snow out of switches and crossovers

[appleintosh]

@chclough no its for snow removal

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

it has to be consuming at least 25 gallons of jet-A fuel per hour

[Farva1239]

@SpiritsoftheWolf actually it runs on kerosene

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

@Farva1239, ok but still burns a lot though :)

[appleintosh]

@SpiritsoftheWolf it consumes 25 ounces of fuel per minute

[oakley175]

Only in America.

[rugbumper]

Think of allo the rock its blowing at a hundred or so mph

[Beefer413]

Is that really worth removing 4 inches of snow? It looks like it could make a good blow dryer when your in a hurry.

[hvguy]

thats a hell of a leaf blower...

[matchettkid]

i thought that was fake!!!

[thebigbill53]

What a waste of fuel,wheres the snow? in ohio thats a light dusting

[1rewd1]

Where's the blowing snow part O_o

[HappyPilotKid]

That thing sounds like the engines on the MD-80!

[bebajoro77]

Impressive. THAT'LL shift the leaves off the driveway!

[MultiMonster69]

wait dont they use like the same thing on roads or somethn to make concrete or asphalt dry faster

[moonwalker5058]

That is an insane snow blower!!!!!

[ajallison90]

no its not that large of a jet engine

[Estileese]

if that was a true jet engine that thing would be flipping around in the air at full throttle, lol

[vipserson]

jet engines don't have to be big

[IAmAVeryFatMan]

@vipserson

OHHH, yes they do!

[fredbair]

they are de icing the points

[DevinL16]

everyone....its a de-icer..

[007Gofer]

@DevinL16

That makes sence.

[Mercy040]

I would think a train could go through as much snow as would fit under the nozzel of this thing. And plus, this would blow all the gravel away.

[DevinL16]

actually a de-icer

[robertgift]

Worthless POS?

[trainmaster4884]

NJ transit has one there really cool wish i could drive one

[DEP717]

I'd guess NJ transit has that bad boy out now... man.

[dkstruska]

I grew up near a rail yard, and they had several of these. I believe they mostly used them for de-icing switches to keep them operable.

[TheSuperTwisted]

that doesnt seem verry effective

[jenik1337]

lol thats cool

[detroitsports77]

you can see these at some of the detroit yards. they hardly ever use em though.

[Cockroach2008]

Another use for the steel wheel mounted, turbine driven leaf blower!

[Skyotonic]

Annoying has Hell...

[Sammoab]

not even that much snow

[iniquity6slayer]

that is a track heater

[MRkallek91]

intereting. the most inefficient & purposeless machine man has made.

"hey, theres some snowballs lying on the tracks. whaddya say we take a jet engine, strap it on a locomotive and blow ´em off?" hahahahaaahahaa.

Stupid as hell.

[pietruski]

haha, you're stupid.

[csh80421]

now is when you get in your car and let all the Ballast bounce off the body and hoping there are no old brake shoe's layin in the gage

[BNforever2009]

hell, they need that in Northern Canada or in the Rockies!!!!

[Aloud11]

we have one of them in Toronto yard...Canadian Pacific ...oh yeah

[ronofontario]

Toronto you say? sorry for the correction but it's not "oh yeah" it should be "EH?"

lol

[Aloud11]

how true, but most people on you tube don't know how us canadians speak. lol

[ronofontario]

Well I think I'm gonna go to the store with my dogsled team and have some beer and back bacon, sounds good eh? lol

[Aloud11]

spoken like a true Canadian...

[antman1978]

thats cool....

[sodia1]

ahh why is this get engined ?

[Tjsingle14]

conrail had a few of these, also some mounted of trucks, uses as hyrails

[okzoia]

How could several inches of ice derail a 200 ton locomotive?

[MauField]

the wheels on a train only sit on a surface of the diamter of dime. they do not make full contact with the rails. so your trucking along with something that uses a dime for a foot print and you get ice under there. and since ice is stupid slippery on metal. oops

[mysubsbang]

same way a 4000 pound car slides into a ditch at 10 mph.

[silicon212]

Same way 1/4" of ice can bring down a Boeing 747.

[beeble2003]

What, by inducing a stall by increasing drag and decreasing lift? Somehow, I don't think so.

[boazrg]

We tried this on the RR I worked on, and all it did was blow away the ballast.

[lowriderz525]

if you look at the tip its angled straight down so if anything it would push the rocks down

[beeble2003]

Doesn't matter. Put some rice on a table and blow at it through a drinking straw. Whatever angle you hold the straw at, the rice will be blown away. Same goes for rocks, if you blow hard enough. For example, with a jet engine.

[Farva1239]

@boazrg thats cause you had a bad operator dont blame it on the machine. Besides it sure beats shoveling

[SteU4IA]

lol the guy in the car was probably like "WTH is that?"

[sasktank]

that thing is stupid --it could never handle any amount of real snow

[BoxcarFrank]

It's not bad for industrial spurs and sidings. It would be inefficient to use a rotary or Jordan Spreader.

[crobaro]

poor bastard, just imagine driving that thing:

"What did you do today?"

"Hm, not much just blew some snow and leafs away and under it i found a real tinnitus!!"

[xXSnackHappyXx]

no i think it would go like this:

"so, what did u do today?"

"WHAT? I CANT HEAR YOU! WHAT DID U SAY?"

[mysubsbang]

or the new employee,

whaaaat yeahhh well ah i did learn if i hit the throttle too hard whhhaaaaaaaaattttt!!! yeah well if you hit the throttle to hard you go backwards. i think it needs a smaller jet engine i thought i was gonna fly away.

[wildhunter666]

this is how american people waste petrol

[Piro42]

No, this is how we ensure that billions of tons of goods are transported safely and efficiently each year. Can't really say the same about the European rail systems, not truthfully.

[wildhunter666]

i dont see any snow in fron of this snow remover

[Piro42]

Ever heard of this stuff called ice? It's like snow, but smaller, and clear. I hear it's also really slippery, but you can get rid of it with heat.

[beeble2003]

That's true but the video's title (which is incorrect if what you say is true) says that this is a `snow remover'.

[mysubsbang]

of course you dont thats the point of this machine :)

[nelsonrn]

I'll be the neighbors love it when that comes by.

[produKtNZ]

And when your bored, disengage the D-E and accelerate via the jet engine :D

[dutchtrainmanserie22]

Awesome,this vehicle need the dutch railways,in Autum blow the Three thumb,leaf from the railroad tracks.

[operazanotaijin]

THE ultimate leaf blower!