Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam Rotary OY, pushed by K-36 Mikado locomotives Nos. 487 and 484, approaches the Highway 17 grade crossing above Dalton, New Mexico, on February 29, 2020. The s... (more)

Steam, smoke and snow
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Rotary OY approaches Colorado Highway 17 grade crossing at Coxo, Colorado, on March 1, 2020. The steam-powered rotary plow is being... (more)

The Nevada Northern Railway's rotary snowplow, on the list of equipment to one day be restored to be fully operational once again, is pulled back through the yard by the shortline's Alco diesels w... (more)

After a very early blizzard in October 1997, the eastern plains of Colorado were heavily drifted with snow. Union Pacific found that it needed to call the Cheyenne, Wyoming-based rotary snowplow N... (more)

Cheyenne-based rotary snowplow No. 900082 was called to duty on October 27, 1997, to clear the “Kansas Pacific” line from Limon to Sharon Springs, Kansas, after a severe October blizzard drift... (more)

This is one snowball fight you can’t win
Looking through cascading snow flying out of the shoot of Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 as it plows a snow-covered Limon Subdivisio... (more)

Run…rabbit…run!
Near sunset on October 28, 1997, Union Pacific rotary snowplow churns through a snow-filled cut at Arapahoe, Colorado, as a rabbit decides to run to the north side o... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 approaches approaching a snowbound Sharon Springs, Kansas, on New Year’s day in 2007. High winds and 32 inches of snow buried the town located on the Kan... (more)

As local yard movements continue their work into the night-time hours, SPMW 211 silently waits for the call to action at UP's Roseville yard. Though her newly rebuilt stablemate SPMW 207 will be t... (more)

Illuminated by the rapidly setting sun, with swirling snow looking like a seething firestorm, Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 tries in vain to throw snow to the north side right-of-way. U... (more)

As the “blue hour” settles in at sunset on New Year’s Day 2007, eastbound Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 approaches Wallace, Kansas, on UP’s Limon Subdivision, also simply known ... (more)

The ingeniously-designed, simple cutting blades of Colorado & Southern rotary snowplow No. 99201 light up brightly in the afternoon sun of November 17, 2014, at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Gol... (more)

Don't mess with a rotary snowplow. CN 55361 is a rotary snowplow built by MLW in 1928 and now preserved at Exporail. In time for Halloween, Exporail has seen fit to decorate the business en... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 pelts the grain elevator at Weskan, Kansas, on New Year’s Day 2007. This plow extra operated east from Denver to open up the Kansas Pacific line to Salin... (more)

Shooting snow over a setting sun
After a very early blizzard in October 1997, the eastern plains of Colorado were heavily drifted with snow. Union Pacific found that it needed to call t... (more)