A UP snow fighting train with UP rotary 900082 heades west at Dale, WY, to assist with reopening of the UP double track mainline in Wyoming, closed by snow.

A UP snow fighting train with UP rotary 900082 heades west at Dale, WY, to assist with reopening of the UP double track mainline in Wyoming, closed by snow.

A BN rotary snow plow rests for the summer in the small yard at Essex MT.

SPMW 207 is seen plowing the #2 Track at Soda Springs, California. A once in a lifetime event for some to see the most powerful pieces of snowfighting equipment ever devised by man in action.

After a day of plowing Donner Pass the rotaries roll past the retired SPMW 210 on display in Truckee.

The Rotaries have just finished plowing Track 2 at Soda Springs and after a brief stop will proceed east towards Truckee.

The rotaries throttle up while plowing the #1 Track in Soda Springs on UP's Roseville Subdivision. Well known photographer Dick Dorn can be seen riding on the trailing locomotive.

Recently restored UP rotary 900075 sits on display at IRM as the big elf himself gets on board the bilevel train for another trip.

UP 900075, the IRM's newly repainted snow plow, rests in Station Track 2 for the night.

Rotary snow plow no. X900207 and its permanently assigned F7B unit are in the company of NW2s nos. 665 and 666 at Milwaukee Road's Tacoma tideflats shops and yard 11 months prior to the end of the... (more)

SPMW 209 at Roseville, 8/4/19.

A Union Pacific rotary snow plow rests outside at IRM.

BNSF 972555 is parked at Glendive ready for action if needed. This unit appears to be upgraded from a former BN snowplow of the same number. If so, it is of GN origins, former X-1509. This unit is... (more)

BNSF 972554 is parked at Glendive ready for action if needed. The unit's paint job is reminiscent of former Great Northern E7s and doodlebugs from the 1940s, looking quite impressive. This plow re... (more)

Built 1912