I tired as a mechanic working the snow trains after having been an engineer for 35 years. The snow removing years were very boring and fricking cold while maintaining or repairing these old beast. The rotor is like a huge flywheel designed to run an average 2,000 rpm max about 3,200 or less. Any faster you run the risk of bending the rotor shafts in heavy dense snow other wise you can maintain a more constant speed in light snow but snow drifts are compacted this is why you can walk on it.Cheers

@yofatmom7732

3 жыл бұрын

Damn 3000 rpm that realy fast

@xChromerSatanasx

3 жыл бұрын

I think you are exaggerating a lot. Do you realize how fast 3200 rpm s is? N ok way on earth big flywheel spins that fast. You might want to research that

@xChromerSatanasx

3 жыл бұрын

This video explains 90 revolutions on the fan blade. Maybe iij misunderstood your 3000 rpm comment. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hamMlqlsqtHWdKg.html

@bobpaulino4714

2 жыл бұрын

The old SP rotaries were never designed to run at that speed.

@jamesb120

2 жыл бұрын

Just a guess here, but the cutter head and rotor/thrower are turning at different speeds. The rotor might be what the OP is talking about spinning 2000rpm.

That is a mountain of hard , compact snow. The roost that blower throws is amazing. Very awesome footage. Thanks!

That snow buster makes such a scenic display in the air, with a bright blue sky as it's canvas. Nature's beauty at it's finest.

Former CBQ rotary snowplow! Nice! Hard to believe seeing how many of these well-maintained units still remain on BNSF's roster!

These are obviously the best snow-fighting equipment the railroads have; they are rather impressive to watch too!

The plow is driven electrically from the B Covered Wagon. The Plow has steam to de-ice the blade, windows, et al. The entire unit is pushed by 2 GP 60's.

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

"The entire unit is pushed by 2 GP 60's." No it's not. It's an ES44AC (BNSF 6185) and a AC4400CW (CEFX 1019).

I grew up in Colorado and it's still tough to wrap my head around the notion that this machine exists because they get that much snow repeatedly. Every winter.

This is so COOL! I LOVE trains and NEVER knew that a train has a snowblower. The sound, the snow shooting in the air, the whole thing is cool, thanks for posting!!

This is great! Thanks for all the effort you put into it. Glad to see we are not the only area that gets buried in the winter.

Lived by them tracks and was snowed in for 5 days during that blizzard. Watched that machine come thru town .. amazing

Sounds intense. I always loved rotary snow plows. There is so much power. It is amazing how far the snow goes.

The snowplow actually does a beautiful job for heavy snow, no joke. Amazing stuff.

This is one of the best scenes I've ever seen of a rotary plow in action. It's amazing how badly the snow drifts there. I wish I could've been there and seen that for my self. Also, thanks for using the high quality setting on your camera! Great video!

What an incredible amount of snow! It seems to be rather fluffy and not frozen and hard as I have seen other machines struggling to move only a few feet.

Watching the direction they are blowing (trying anyway) the snow reminds me of the old adage about not pissing into the wind.

THAT FOOTAGE IS AWESOME !!!!!!!

Now this is what i call an awsome recording. NICE

Thanks very much Chad Carlson for taking the time and energy to log this great video of the BNSF Rotary Snow Plow operators. It's fascinating watching what these men do in adverse conditions. Mike

@urosvlahovic9279

3 жыл бұрын

Just felt an urge to reply to your 10 year old comment 😳

@dirtfarmer7472

5 ай бұрын

@@urosvlahovic9279 Just adding my 2 cents worth in 2024, & comment about the level of intelligence for the people who were standing down wind.

@urosvlahovic9279

5 ай бұрын

@@dirtfarmer7472 Honestly i believe it would feel amazing getting all that snow blown onto you. Btw I have no memory of posting this three years ago, but time flies by, i got nostalgic

That is a beast of a machine.

@MrAIRSHOWFAN100

10 жыл бұрын

yep

@eccentric363

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds awsome

@Altair9678

6 жыл бұрын

Wonkabar007, talk about old school...it sounds & looks like it took all winter

@thaddeusciszczon7111

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrAIRSHOWFAN100 0000000000000

@reginaconnelly1806

3 жыл бұрын

increase engine strength and it would be better

Best toy EVER! Thanks for sharing AND for explaining why the fields were clear of snow.

@earlhollar1906

2 жыл бұрын

Was it because the cuts we're between two shelterbelt so it would be soft fluffy snow filling up the cuts instead of hard crusted over and with the wind in that area and the fields bear the snow ended up in the cuts between the shelterbelts.

That engine sounded amazing on my sound system, shook my whole room and I could feel it in my chest. Bet that sounded great in person.

BMW 801 radial snow blower, that's awesome!!

@ToreDL87

3 жыл бұрын

Wait they used 801's in these?

@earlhollar1906

2 жыл бұрын

@@ToreDL87 I'm pretty sure it was General Motors engines, and general electric generators and motors. Henceforth ergo electro-motive division of GM

Wow that is so awesome to see. Also the beautiful blue sky. A good day in Nebraska thanks

This is an awesome video! My kids and I were just looking at this bad boy sitting in the Hobson Yard. They will LOVE seeing the video of it in action. Thanks for posting!

That is probably the best sounding engine i've ever heard.

@brianstraight9333

8 жыл бұрын

+Cristi Neagu Go watch "The battle for donner pass" there are some really good prime mover sounds in there, up in the pass plus some in the concrete sheds.

@maxm2317

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the EMD 567 is one of the most iconic diesel engines out there.

Beautiful, great filming!

Superb! Worth watching for the sound alone. Magic.

Awesome video I wish I could have been there to see but thanks to you I was and didn't have to freeze. The engines that was pushing that beast sounded so cool I loved this video. Thanks again for your sharing!!

WOW! That is amazing to such high amounts of snow.. Really makes that rotary plow work!

@earlhollar1906

2 жыл бұрын

This plow keeps moving forward at a steady Pace whereas when they close the Carlyle Branch from Beach North Dakota to Carlyle Montana, the engineer had the back up and take a run at it and go forward because the snow was as high as the top of the light on the plow. Rest of the story is with the commenter below!

they need some big snow fences to pile up all those drifts somewhere else. I remember in VA they took down some snow fence and ended up with a 20' drift on the road. it was amazing1

That’s one awesome piece of machinery! I would imagine that it uses a lot of fuel! Thanks so very much for sharing that with us! Great footage!

Thanks for a fascinating video! Best I've seen yet!

Realmente muito lindo a beleza da neve. Bem difícil a remoção. E incrível o trabalho de limpeza e liberacao da via férrea. Amei o vídeo.

Wow! Really fast and efficient!

That is amazing!! Had to watch it twice and it still is friggen cool!!

Interesting snow blower, bigger than my 8hp one at home. Love the action. I also noticed the fields have no snow on them yet there is 6to 10 on the tracks.

looks like the kind of snow my dad would make me shovel in NH "to build character" when I was younger..

@chiefguns1980

7 жыл бұрын

Guy H. in July!

@todddooley793

6 жыл бұрын

G. H. With no shoes hehe

@timschrieber7379

5 жыл бұрын

No shoes and a spoon and you had to eat it all

@cleverusername6233

5 жыл бұрын

uphill, both ways!

@stephensafraniii3396

4 жыл бұрын

Big character.

VERY well done! Good video and beautiful snow plume shots.

@earlhollar1906

2 жыл бұрын

You should see the snow plume, when they plow the line between Essex Montana and Kalispell. Between the snow sheds, once in a while there will be an avalanche that happens at the end of the snow sheds, if there are Bighorn Sheep trapped inside it's a beautiful red snowy plume that shoots out of there every once in awhile between snow sheds and then a big one at the end!

Now that's what I call winter railroading at its best. That video is something to remember with. Great video.

The sound is incredible!

That stuff is packed so hard, no wonder that have to go slowly, yikes

"Hey...whats that noise?" - Snow burrowing squirrel nest

Thank you very much for posting this. Very good quality and content.

Great video. Wow that's a lot of snow! Thanks for sharing.

In this depth of snow 1mph is making good time.

Very Interesting. I love those GE's for the sound. Here in Michigan we use Russel Snowplows.

Beautiful!!! To see this ❤!!!

I live in Buffalo New York, I can use this in my driveway

@JesseH

4 жыл бұрын

I can totally relate. I was there when you got 7 1/2 feet

@tomhare5110

3 жыл бұрын

Jesse H yeh same, I live in England and we got about an inch last winter and it as so bad it was gone by lunchtime

that thing sounds scary and looks amazing!

Beautiful.................thanks for sharing!

Perfect video! Thank You!

WOW! Impressive stuff, even though the train is hardly moving!

the engine sound is amazing

Imagine what a pain it would be to do that by yourself with a shovel? Man, that snow blower... I can't believe what it's capable of. Pretty awesome power! It's also pretty cool to see one of the brand new ES44C4s on the job too. Great video!

@clearcreek69

Жыл бұрын

It would take weeks to clear all that snow with a shovel even if you shovelled with another person at the same time.

Greetings from the BIG SKY. That's a big snow drift you got there.

I think this was shot after a Christmas Holiday, and a period of snow and 40 mph winds. The wind drifting builds walls and mounds. It can happen in a day. The snow can compact and form ice that needs to be cut through. The operation of the plow involves the direction of the rotatory, the speed of the rotary, and the forward speed. When you hear him letting off its probably the throttle as you cannot rush this. Too fast and you can derail the rotatory. Slow an careful is best.

@davidmarshall1259

8 жыл бұрын

+consanna true. I was truck driving in Europe in the mid 90's when I got caught in a serious snow storm with driving winds. ( central france, coming back from Italy.) it came on very suddenly. I was on a driving break of 45minutes. lovely when it started. then the driving winds came and that's a game changer. it created utter chaos. wind driven snow can cover houses in minutes. very scary.

the "Power Units" are basically mechanically and internally Identical to the B-units they were converted from except for the fact that they no longer have Traction motors to drive the wheels and thus the B-unit can no longer move itself. The B-unit also has heavy duty cables to provide power to the plow it is attatched to. The plow is electically driven from the power unit, the plow geared to locomotive traction motors.

Very beautiful !! Thanks

Absolutly fantastic!

Glad KZread recommended this, anyone else?

that certainly is an impressive piece of kit. nice job, well done fella's.

the engine is an old F7B unit with an old 567 or 645 in it from EMD. It pulsate's as you have to keep the blade at a certain speed, when it slows down, you throttle up, when it gets to the speed, you throttle down.

Scenes like these make me glad to spend the winter months in Mexico.

i love this video so much ive seen it like 10 times lol get some more footage if you can this winter dude !!!

That thing's like an avalanche in a box!

I just love listening to the engine working hard to move that snow.

@ToreDL87

3 жыл бұрын

Thats the train moving, theres a separate motor for the blower.

Thanks airing the vid.Bliss

Great video

@atticusrallye702

3 жыл бұрын

Wow this comment was made when I was 7 holy crap

@irelandbloke

3 жыл бұрын

@@atticusrallye702 👍

@imaybegod4506

3 жыл бұрын

Ur old.

It sounds a little like an Alco. It's a real workhorse!

@GnonplussedGnome

7 жыл бұрын

Smokes like an Alco too!

@rearspeaker6364

5 жыл бұрын

@@GnonplussedGnome 16-567 EMD diesel.

That's deep snow out there very cold locomotives dig it out of the track awesome video friend bless you stay warm inside Nebraska

Wow nice catch! Never seen a pair of GEVO's and a B unit and a diesel snowplow in one catch! Great job

Now that is so very impressive.It tightened my guts when you were close too the thing,but it was really impressive.

@earlhollar1906

2 жыл бұрын

If you think that tightens your gut. When the Section Crew was ordered to knock a 2-foot overhang off in front of the plow with shovels. And one shovel accidentally-on-purpose happened to fall in front of the plow when the Engineer had backed up and was headed forward to hit It again and the shovel came out in 3 pieces the Roadmaster said, "I don't think we'll do that anymore". You think!

@sentradynamics8889

2 жыл бұрын

@@earlhollar1906 if you think that tightens your gut you should see my toro 6 horsepower gasoline powered 4 stroke single stage snow blower in action

very satisfying

That’s one monstrous snow machine. Awesome

Excellent video - wow thanks

Athearn model trains makes a nice powered HO scale model of this snow plow & tender BN972559.

yeah, that was pretty darn cool.

...THE BEST rotary action camera angles , EVER...👍👍👍👍👍

back again this thing blows my mind ! try to get more this year if u can Dude !

I wonder if they sell this snowblower attachment at Home Depot.

@BM22TechReview

3 жыл бұрын

No, but they have it at Lowe's :)

@deannelson9565

3 жыл бұрын

No only at Train Depot!

@bigdaddydiesel5520

2 жыл бұрын

@@deannelson9565 Literally AT a Train Depot!

@sentradynamics8889

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I saw it for $49

the ultimate Zombie train.

that is an awesome looking snow blower wow that snow is just flying

The sound alone of the engine is awesome

When they are done there, they can come on over and do my driveway.

@noobdestroyerxx7227

6 жыл бұрын

Two Beers lol

sounds a lot like my 85 Dodge pickup....so thats where it went that weekend, i was wonderin.... thatd also explain the slowness....

Oh what 😳 a pretty sky,...with all that ❄ snow

I love this 😍❤️👍🏽. This is just AWESOME AMAZING BEAUTIFUL ❤️

With that much torque I wonder if they had to engineer something to keep it from twisting itself off the rails. Cool video! Thanks for sharing :)

That blower sounds like an old truck! Lol

@eccentric363

6 жыл бұрын

sounds alot bigger than a truck engine!

@MrRyand24

4 жыл бұрын

LOL i was fixing my snowblowerso i turned to look and see the old truck plowing(Heard it) NOPE its a TRAIN!

@AC-ir3od

3 жыл бұрын

Old truck with 5,000 hp

I believe this video has been around awhile. I really like it. THANKS for putting time and location on it. I too would be interested to know why the blowers' engine surges, and the answer to some other questions people wrote in.

That was so cool! Thanks for the video

They must know the road pretty good.

I bet the railroad guys hate it when the foamers get that close to the tracks, especially when they're running that kind of equipment.

@donkoch8010

4 жыл бұрын

No actually they like it

@ZachPumphery

3 жыл бұрын

Most of the people present there *are* railroaders.

@kishascape

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZachPumphery yeah no one minds.

Fantastic never seen anything like that here in UK. Great video

Very cool that you were able to get so close to the action.

Did they finish this before spring?

@ILIK3HATERZ

9 жыл бұрын

Very funny ass hole!

@tommytmt

9 жыл бұрын

@swollenrhino… asshole is one word

@dad5650

7 жыл бұрын

Toms Chevelle Ass is one word, Hole is one word, Asshole is a compound word...lol.

@TomsChevelle

7 жыл бұрын

That is super... Thank you for the spelling lesson!

@dad5650

7 жыл бұрын

Toms Chevelle Glad to help!😊

I wish my Honda sounded like that.

@RDCST

6 жыл бұрын

That would be a very heavy Honda. :P

@maggs131

5 жыл бұрын

I wish your honda was ground up by that snow thrower

@jaym4577

4 жыл бұрын

@@maggs131 lol

Wow, that was awesome! Not only the machine, but the amount of snow. You would think they would keep a steady amount of force on the blower instead of stalling it out and letting it catch up and repeating.

Boy does that bring back memories of when I was a kid.. just look at those blue skies and no chemtrails.

@datbomb98

4 жыл бұрын

Contrails*

@perooster1

3 жыл бұрын

Chemtrails.. tin foil hat alert..

@earlhollar1906

2 жыл бұрын

@@perooster1 wow are you behind times they haven't made tinfoil in years it's aluminum foil, the leading cause of Alzheimer's. Your move!

@earlhollar1906

2 жыл бұрын

@@datbomb98 with that little star behind the word isn't there supposed to be an exclamation explanation.?.? Is that like a prisoner Trail? Or is that H2O vapor condensation Trail? Sorry I couldn't get my 2 to shrink down and hug the leg at the H.

@earlhollar1906

2 жыл бұрын

Well I guess if the government makes the Airlines use DEF, as they do with anyone driving an internal combustion diesel I guess you could call it a chemtrail.

You got a lot of likes-for a lot of Snow 👍