NEB&W Guide to SnowplowsThis file is open to website members only
Last Update: 2009-07-18
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Snowplows like must go way back to early days of railroading. Actually, the John Bull, one of earliest locos, and the one credited with the first cowcatcher, had a snowplow-type pilot. A snowplow attachment to a loco was sufficient to handle light snows.
I understood that at first the plow was simply a wedged-shape attachment, but this only cleared the snow back to the width of the device, forming walls of hard-packed snow. Subsquent plowing had no place to put the snow. So the