Sunday, January 22, 2023

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 It's Steamy Sunday!  Today's image is of my all time favorite railroad.  I need to get back and ride it again, last time was 5 years ago.  Time flies when you're having fun.  😏  Anyway, this is the Cumbres & Toltec Railroad train sitting at the station on the Antonito Colorado end.  It had just returned from Chama New Mexico.



5 comments:

  1. It seems to have a large "protrusion" at the front, rather than just a "cattle guard".
    (I know protrusion isn't the right word and I suspect that Cattle guard isn't either, but those are the two terms that came to mind)

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    1. Yes, as Darren stated below, a "cowcatcher" or pilot is the most common protrusion to a locomotive. In the higher elevations these trains will go through snow and even sometimes small mudslides or rockslides so they have the quite heavy duty plows on the front.

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  2. Usually the thing at the front is called a cow catcher. However on this locomotive that is a snow plow.

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