Maine Eastern Railroad Snow Plow extra 1-23-09

Click on "HQ" at the lower right (below the video box) for best results. Maine Eastern Railroad Snow plow clearing the ROW in Brunswick, with Ex-CN MLW(Alco)420 #3573 pushing. The snow was all piled up in the crossings, but 764 pushed most of it out of the way when it came through earlier. The plow was headed to the yard to clear it out for Pan Am to be able to get through. I wish I got more footage of the yard being plowed, but it's always a bit of a challenge to find a good spot for filming down there with 2-3 feet of snow to walk through the whole way. I'm hoping it snows more, so I can get more footage maybe.
Enjoy!
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[MultiHornguy]

Why does it have Pac-Man on it? Great video!

[GP9railfan]

@MultiHornguy Just the Maine Eastern paint shop having some fun. Thanks! Lots more like this on my channel. :)

[mrbluenun]

Really nice viewing this, and a really great videographer too job, thanks!

Love the snow plough runs!

Take care,

mrbluenun

[GP9railfan]

@mrbluenun Thanks! Glad you like it. I froze my donkey off filming this rare event, but it was worth it. It was only around -20*F for a high that day. Buhhurrr!

All the best,

Z.

[captainmorgan757]

@GP9railfan Granted, I was not there; however, at -20f the atmosphere would not produce the stratus formation of the clouds that are prevelent in this video. An air mass that very cold has such low amounts of mositure in it that clouds simply could not form and thus the sun would be shining. It may have seemed very cold, but the evidance concludes that it could not have been -20f at the time of the video taping. I enjoyed it though! Thanks for posting! :)

[GP9railfan]

@captainmorgan757 LOL It was. I had about 5 layers on, & still froze my arse off. I don't normally get cold either, but that day I sure did! The wind certainly didn't help things any either I tell ya!

Thanks for watching this.

[xxxDeath9572xxx]

Fantastic Video! great Horn and shot

[Diesel4me2]

Once again, nice professional looking video! This one looks great too! I also put this in my faves. 5/5 stars too. Keep up the awesome work!!

[drc930]

Awesome video! Brunswick looks different now, with double track going all the to Maine Street. Lots of ballast being put down as well, for the Downeaster upgrades.

[Tomicrown]

It's a Russell snowplow made in Ridgway, PA. The sides (where the diagonal blades are) swing out 2 feet or so on each side for added drift widening!

Conrail has one on the old Lehigh and Hudson line.

John Seekamp

Florida, NY

[microbusss]

@TailsBattle yeah you'r right lmao & CP Rail used to have that design on their equipment

[GP9railfan]

@CRQ5508 Yeah, they're basically Canadian built Alco's. Maine Eastern is thinking about painting 3573 up like 764. Yes 3573 is very much still on the Maine Eastern roster. They run it at least once a week, or every other week. She puts on quite a smoke show too at full chug. Thanks for watching my video, & glad you like it. I have a couple more videos of 3573 on my channel.