White Pass & Yukon Route railway - Rotary Snow Plow at Work #3

This video shows the operation of the historic steam locomotives and rotary snow plow of the White Pass & Yukon Route railway north of Skagway, Alaska, on April 27, 2011. See more videos as well as still photos and commentary from this day, at http://explorenorth.com/wordpress/?p=939

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Science & Technology

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• wpyr
• rotary
• snow
• plow
• train
• work
• winter
• steam
• locomotive
• Skagway
• Alaska
• White
• Pass
• Yukon
• railway
• railroad
• 2011
• South
• Klondike
• Highway
• Fraser
• British
• Columbia

[leather064]

At what point on the WPYR was this shot?

[explorenorth]

@leather064 - this is right at Fraser, British Columbia.

[Rainmanxxl1967]

If the engineer knows how to maintain a fire , most stuff blown out of the stacks is pure H2O in form of steam . When a steam engine works hard like the snowplow it can happen that the draft pulls little anthracite coal pieces from the firebox and the exhaust steam gets dark.

[explorenorth]

@Rainmanxxl1967 - nice guess, but these steamers are fired with oil, not coal.

[PonyTails55]

@explorenorth Can't see how this is possible, a oil burning Steam Locomotive!!!

[explorenorth]

@PonyTails55 - steam can be produced by any fire/heat source, wood, coal or oil fuelled.

[explorenorth]

That's funny, baldeagle - what does a steam locomotive have to do with "today's technology"??? It's tough to make "railfans" and "treehuggers" work in the same sentence.

[PereMarquette1223]

Wait, the rotary plow is also its own locomotive too?

[marianxtreme]

wtf chemical bomb on wheels

[id4deepak]

One form of water

(steam) pushing its another form(snow) :-)

[Strangeworries]

mmm a lot of smoke! :D

[BudmanPackfan]

@PonyTails55 maybe do some research. there is a wealth of information available online and in libraries about steam locomotive development. the first test steam engines (not locomotive) were fired by alcohol. read, it does a mind wonders!

[PonyTails55]

@justforever96 The first Locomotive with the plow, is doing the hardest amount of work! Has the smoke is darker, than the other 2 Locomotives. This explains that the fire, needs to be fuelled up more, then the rest of the team! Lovely set up, all the same! :)