Scientific approach to snow control on railway tracks

Railway workers in Canada and the United States of America, faced similar, and perhaps even harsher conditions for dealing with snow on railways than on the territory of the Russian Empire. But they came to the conclusion much earlier in the fight against the snow it is necessary to use the most modern scientific and technological achievements.

At a time when the workers of the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov or Catherine railways were adopting plank shields for snow plows, their Quebec, New York or Chicago colleagues solved the same problems using steam traction.

A rotary snow plow near Chicago
A rotary snow plow near Chicago
Cleaning the tracks in New York in 1880
Cleaning the tracks in New York in 1880

Railway magazine “Railway Supply”

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