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An example of a railroad wedge plow. The wedge plow or Bucker plow was first developed by railroad companies to clear snow in the American West. The wedge plow forces snow to the sides of the tracks and therefore requires a large amount of force due to the compression of snow.
Operational rotary snowplow Xrotd 9213 on the Rhaetian Railway in Switzerland. A rotary snowplow (American English) or rotary snowplough is a piece of railroad snow removal equipment with a large circular set of blades on its front end that rotate to cut through the snow on the track ahead of it.
De-icing is defined as removal of existing snow, ice or frost from a roadway, airport runway, roof, or other surface. It includes both mechanical means, such as plowing, vacuuming or scraping, and chemical means, such as application of salt or other ice-melting chemicals.
By RYAN GORMAN Shocking video has emerged of a freight train slamming into an 18-wheeler that was stuck on the tracks. The Sunday afternoon wreck in Mer Rouge, Louisiana, caused two of the engines ...
In a chilling moment captured on video, a man found himself buried under an avalanche during snow removal operations. The footage, taken by an excavator operator in Turkey's Sirnak Province ...
A winter service vehicle (WSV), or snow removal vehicle, is a vehicle specially designed or adapted to clear thoroughfares of ice and snow. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Winter service vehicles are usually based on a dump truck chassis , with adaptations allowing them to carry specially designed snow removal equipment.
In 1923, the brothers Hans and Even Øveraasen of Norway constructed an early snowplow for use on cars. This proved to be the start of a tradition in snow-clearing equipment for roads, railways [14] and airports, as well as the foundation of the company Øveraasen Snow Removal Systems. [citation needed]
BEIJING (Reuters) -Freezing rain, snow and ice have snarled traffic in central and eastern China as billions of people travel home ahead of the Spring Festival holiday in the blistering cold ...