Steam Train Rotary Snow Plow

[@deaconfrost4100]

Oh baby they slipping and the stack talk from those engines...damn beautiful ❤ they are definitely working on the incline pushing through the snow ❤❤

[@Fire21ccfd]

It's so cool when a railroad takes the time and expense to restore old equipment! Wonderful to watch this rotary operating. Thanks C&TSRR and CoasterFan2015.

[@carolyounce5810]

Oh my gosh, those lonely whistles as they headed over the trestle...... and that rhythmic chugging sound, I love it!!!

[@pacificwarrior7679]

Awesome shots. Always wanted to see what mountain railroading looked like 100 yrs ago in color HD

[@alcopower5710]

This is absolutely fantastic. You must have been over the moon to see this in person.......thanks for sharing

[@nathancorcoran5347]

Happy that C&TS Rotary OY is back in operation at the Cumbres & Toltec.

[@Conductordave]

Hey dude! Just wanted to say thank you for coming out! It was a blast to see all y’all on our railroad! Hope you come back this summer to see the most exciting year so far! The best is yet to come!

[@amtrakjim1]

I grew up as a young boy in the 1940s with steam I absolutely loved this video.

[@5MadMovieMakers]

Legendary footage. Glad I found the original

[@mofkarim]

Glad that some part of the world still uses steam engines

[@richardmckinnon8791]

2 are kept for Donner Pass area

[@volvo09]

Amazing shots! Wou were in perfect position to catch the wheel slip as the train struggled up the grade! I thought she was going to get stuck!

[@LukeLovesTrains-Mr.RailYard]

Pretty awesome shots that you got. Glad to see a rotary snow plow back on the combres and Toltec Scenic Railroad. Thanks for sharing. LJL

[@nickdeluna8681]

WOW! I thought I never seen day. A rare steam operating snow plow engine is been restored and run again! I do hope they'll keep restore those engines for many years to come around winter time.

[@sdlcman1]

I took that train a few years back and it was fantastic. They have an open air freight car for the photographers, and that's where I was most of the time. It chugs along probably at around 20 mph, perfect for taking pictures. They even stop and serve lunch.

[@caroleroseburgh1344]

This is really awesome ‼️ I can watch the OY EVERY DAY ‼️ IT'S ALWAYS FASCINATING TO ME TO SEE THE SNOW FLY. I KEEP REPEATING MYSELF, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL ❤️👍🏽❤️👏🏾👏🏾.

[@MotherKayOss]

This was so cool. Thank you. I grew up seeing one of these snow plows parked at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. I didn't know that any of them still operated. What a cool thing to see!

[@vehicleswithjacob]

Wow what a sight! I never knew they existed. I wish Britain had some. Great videos and shots of the train!

[@JAMESJENKINS-i2n]

An absolutely beautiful video. Thank you again!!

[@CoasterFan2105]

You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@justus7663]

OUSTANDING, Thanks for posting!

[@billypowell8082]

I seriously need to check this line out. I've been to both the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic and the Durango and Silverton, but I haven't been to either line since I was younger. I need to see what's changed in 20 years.

[@royreynolds108]

From photos railroads have used 6 or 7 locos to push the rotary up the grade and into the snow, particularly when the snow was almost as deep as the wheel. The last loco would be operated in reverse so when the outfit backed up a tender would not be in the lead to be easily derailed. Derailing any wheel while snow plowing is a royal pain. I can just imagine the sound of that many locos pushing for all they are worth and the roar of the rotary. A video of that would be priceless.

[@MicahMount]

Very cool--my toddler said "I love that choo choo" of the rotary OY.

[@gatortrainchaser2080]

That is one COOL piece of RR equipment! You had PERFECT WEATHER for that chase! EXCELLENT VIDEO Mike!!

[@davidwhite4915]

Watching from the UK a brilliant quality recording feels cold and you can almost smell the smoke and steam.

[@Taoseno2007]

Very cool! Love it when the two locos slip and have to start over! Amazing video! Thanks!

[@Buynot]

Fantastic coverage! I like that you provided a little bit of background info in the beginning as to how the photo charter worked.

[@lightningsaviation5130]

Rotary snow plows are just amazing pieces equipment.

[@CoasterFan2105]

They sure are!

[@SportyMabamba]

They are skookum as frick

[@Christian_tips]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@TonyVRailfanning]

Mike, thankyou for capturing this for us. Beautiful job on the edit of this video as well

[@21xd09]

Gosh I love that sound when the train wheel slips! Sounds so awesome! Great capture btw! Really captured the scenery in this one!

[@ptewing]

Mike, all your videos are excellent but you've really outdone yourself with this one. Absolutely amazing winter railroading and brilliantly captured here.

[@georgebliss8262]

I've been on that line but never in winter. Boy, what a show! Great footage.

[@TyTytheTrainGuy]

Awesome video! Great to see them take out this historic thing!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you! It was really neat to see!

[@mikeyjasoncampbell9694]

I love the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad. I love the Rotary OY! It was so good seeing the OY back

[@willberestartingthischanne9984]

That Steam Rotary Snow Plow Is Very Awesome Mike

[@CaliforniaCoastRailActions]

Very good video Mike, I have to say this was an interesting video to watch about the OY steam rotary snowplow.

[@migranthawker2952]

Absolutely brilliant, Mike, many thanks for making this video!!

[@Laura-6887]

Thanks for sharing this video. I've seen videos like this before. I would have loved to been with you on this trip. Would have loved to see that in person. Thank you again.

[@bean_bttf3]

Omg 😆 such an awesome machine, wish this vehicle more power and strength in its wonderful and amazing new journeys. Love ❤️ all those trains 🚂, love you guys, keep doing what your doing, best wishes moving forward and many more!!!🥰🥰😇😇😇😇🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@valeriebassett3107]

Oh what a really great video. You always do a fantastic job. Thank you for sharing! Love steam and really like watching the rotaries working! ❤️

[@TommyPicklesFan]

That Rotary Snow Plow looks very cool!

[@ArkansasLocomotiveWorks]

It’s pretty impressive how they restored that in under a few months.

[@blackbirdgaming8147]

I feel like you would know the answer to this-what are the regulations on a steam rotary? Is it treated like a locomotive where it must have a 1472?

[@ArkansasLocomotiveWorks]

@@blackbirdgaming8147 I honestly don't know, that's a good question.

[@marymcneil9133]

Hello , It is very interesting,it entertained ,educates me,I also enjoy many landscapes. , I really like 👍🏻 trains and I really enjoy the views .❤️🇨🇦💌📮

[@FamilyGuyandWonderGarbo8448]

Man this a steam train a hit snow rail. That Perry Awesome Mike

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you!

[@FamilyGuyandWonderGarbo8448]

@@CoasterFan2105 your welcome mate

[@ethelmiller5278]

I am so Happy to see the old time steam engines and to hear there wonderful noise they make and hear there old time whistles, it sounds so Good! I just love these old trains….❤😊😊

[@tymarls]

cool video. Lots of pollution just to clear some inches of snow. Glad we’ve gotten cleaner and hopefully will keep getting more that way!

[@solutodelugol]

Just wanted to let you know that my two year old son refuses to eat unless he's watching one of you riveting train videos. Keep on doing God's work!

[@JohnSing]

Great video! Thx for sharing it with us.

[@CoasterFan2105]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@Bill_Gray-Pullman_Travels]

Great video, fantastic scenery and rotary action. Cool wheel slip audio! Thanks for sharing!

[@glennclifton3157]

I enjoyed it. I've always been a railroad enthusiasts very partial to railroads and and also big rigs I used to drive them. And also work for the railroad. And heavy equipment

[@Chuck59ish]

Our local regional railroad, The New Brunswick Southern Railroad uses a Jordan Spreader on the line from Saint John to McAdam, New Brunswick. This spring the Canadian Pacific Railroad return to Saint John after being gone for almost 40 years. Corporate ideas change.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Yup, things change over time. Thanks for commenting, Charles.

[@AVeryRandomPerson]

@CoasterFan2105 A Charger owned by CalTrans is also numbered 2105. So an 2105 will still exist after the Coaster one is retired.

[@awizardalso]

My real name is Michael McCluskey. I'm a fan of railroads and trains and steam locomotives most all of my life. In my early years I spent most of my time out in rural areas of Brookpark and Middleburgh Heights from 1959 to 1965. In 1965 my parents moved to the west side of Cleveland. It took to hopping freight trains to go on adventures as I hated the city life.

[@joejoseph3078]

Narrator has a soothing voice.

[@deltatrains]

Another one of your many most excellent videos. Thanks for sharing it with everyone.

[@jimtedesco]

I didn't know there was such a thing, very cool.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thanks, Jim!

[@jeremykuehn1027]

Very cool

[@andrewc1199]

I remember seeing this in Choo Choo Trains: Close up and Very Personal as a little kid! This brought back so many memories!

[@jernulf]

what an amazing experience this must've been. Thank you for sharing it!

[@handyman5455]

Best steam video ever. I live 3 1/2 hours from there

[@lotharschiese8559]

Very emotional to see and hear at full volume and base! This needs to be maintained before extinction!

[@NSWSteamFan]

Brings back memories from that nostalgic DVD Marathon of Steam Volume 1 Part 2. Good on ya mate.

[@NSWSteamFan]

Sorry about the typo. I meant Volume 1.

[@brianrooney2970]

Just bought one of these for my ho scale layout, just cause they're cool.

[@kevp9601]

I Love That Steam Snow Train so Much, My KZbin-Friends. :-D

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thanks, Kev!

[@AzteckKill3r]

fantastic work! it was great experincing it myself. cool to see other people's POV of it as well

[@Request_2_PANic]

Some of the footage looks very familiar from a preview VHS I have from Pentrex which includes the rotary plow.

[@YardLimit]

Nice work, Mike! The narration is great!

[@paulspitsen3581]

Excellent video!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you, Paul!

[@adp10390]

We love watching this video with our toddler!! We ❤ steam trains.

[@dvnrhillary]

Unbelievable! I never seen any snow plow trains in the USA.

[@CoasterFan2105]

You don't see them all that often in the US! Thanks for watching!

[@blackbirdgaming8147]

Devon Ray Hillary If you think this is cool, you should see Union Pacific’s Rotary Snowplow train on Donner Pass during record snowfall. It’s really something to watch. I’m sure Mike here has a video somewhere of the Donner Pass snowplow.

[@ericsundell9978]

I finally found a snowblower worthy of upper midwestern winters! hahah

[@robertschmidt6383]

This never gets old to watch.

[@HomeschoolwithRachel]

Great homeschool lesson for my preschoolers! They were mesmerized.

[@glennkennedy441]

Fascinating, thanks for this !

[@aureliozen2]

That's really fabulous, spectacular documentary work!

[@jlebaron1]

wow, what a wonderful photo op! Thanks so much for sharing, great video!

[@MPT_Productions]

Great video, Mike! What a cool event, hope this will happen again one day! Got to see 463 move it back in June to Antonito, but it was definitely not as cool as seeing it do what it was meant to do!

[@chendersonrailproductions704]

That really looks like it was quite the time! Hope it happens again, I would like to make it. Another great video man.

[@ShaileshSharma-jp4jl]

SO COOL N BEST Exprince 👌🌹👌🌹👌🌹👌

[@NicksCollectableCreations]

U.P still uses it's Rotary Snow Plow in Wyoming when the snow gets serious. These things were built to blow snow mountains.

[@joesvoboda3509]

Great video! First time I have ever seen a K-36 wheel slip. They usually make mountain railroading look easy. I wonder if ALCO ever looked into installing turbo-electric drive on their rotary snowplows? The technology did exist in 1923.

[@winkelmannchannel971]

First time I’ve seen since the 1990s very cool

[@awildjared1396]

the only one I've every seen in operation (online because we've never visited a place with a functional rotary in winter) was WP&YR rotary number 1

[@TwoRibbonRailvideos]

Awesome video!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thanks so much!

[@Frank-lz7rp]

Summer 14th june 2024 ìn the cumbles and toltec senic railroad is coming soon!

[@coppercruz3605]

Awesome Video:) Those rotaries are awesome machines.

[@madflynn4856]

Did you know the steam locomotive 3801 is fixed?

[@Koima2106]

Damm i never seen something like that ty for the awsome video!

[@CoasterFan2105]

They're pretty neat! Thanks for watching!

[@Doughnutscream]

That was an AWESOME video. Thank you for posting

[@CoasterFan2105]

Well thanks for saying so! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@jolitzwr]

Beautiful work as always, Mike. Glad to finally meet you. Watch for my article in Narrow Gauge World! Bill Jolitz

[@rrglare]

FABULOUS! Thank you so much

[@SantaFe19484]

Awesome video! Is the tank car for supplying the rotary with steam water?

[@jeremykuehn1027]

Mom and I Saw the Rotary Snowplow at the Illinois Railway Museum 4 weeks ago!

[@nicom4996]

I always wanted to see one of them working in the 21st century.

[@zebrashark23]

You can if you buy a $1200 ticket not including travel, meal, and lodging expenses. I wanted to take my 10 year old son and show him an awesome experience but we couldn’t afford it.

[@JAILRail]

Fantastic!

[@TranscontinentalRailfan]

You made an amazing winter wonderland video! Are you going to see the Autumn Colors Express in West Virginia this year?

[@Handlesarestoopid]

0:25 What is that strange contraption? Me: you didn't see the title then

[@oldsteamguy]

awesome video. thanks for posting

[@pts3394]

Great narration and filming.

[@southwesternct2222]

Nobody: The snow plow: TSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTSTS *SPINNNNNNN*

[@jacquesblaque7728]

Actually, one or both of the Mikes would do some spinning of drivers. The plow couldn't do that, no how.

[@Nicola636128]

Fantastic video, very impressive!

[@johnmezera2862]

The Rotary is awesome.

[@iowarailfanitsiowanotcorn5470]

Please come to the Boone scenic valley railroad in Iowa i know you don’t believe it is home to the last steam train ever built but it’s true I hear it in a scenic railroad documentary and the narrator even said it was the last so please.