Friday, September 17, 2021

Weekend Steam: Railroad Oddities

 Boy is this a mixed bag, but every one of them is worth looking at! Thanks Merle!


4 comments:

John in Philly said...

Interesting, and the rotary snowplow lives on in the form of a gasoline powered snowthrower.
A quick dive into the internet didn't turn up any small snowthrowers with steam engine power.

David aka True Blue Sam said...

Steam power would be good. You would have cinders to shake down on the driveway!

John in Philly said...

Growing up in the fifties-sixties in Philly I would still see the occasional delivery of coal to homes and just as you said, they never lacked for cinders when it snowed!
And the coal fired snowthrower would keep me a lot warmer than the modern gasoline thrower.

David aka True Blue Sam said...

When I was a kid, the alleys in our Iowa town all had cinders in the alleys because coal was still being used to heat homes. The school system's track around the football field was surfaced with cinders, too.