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In anticipation of snow season, PennDOT districts across the state are conducting annual training sessions for their full-time and temporary plow operators, helping re-familiarize them with the ...
The heavy snow prompted county and highway officials to close portions of several roadways Friday, including parts of I-90 in New York and Pennsylvania and I-86 in Pennsylvania.
On Sunday night, the National Weather Service is calling for a 100% chance of snow showers with heavy snow. Erie Weather: Take a web-cam tour of Erie-area weather conditions More snow for Erie ...
The Society owns several historic pieces of rolling stock including two Budd RDC-1 rail diesel cars (BHRX 9153 and BHRX 9167), an NE class wooden caboose, originally built for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, a Russell snow plow, and four speeder cars.
The five vehicles, which are a snow plow, locomotive, tender, bunk car, and caboose, form a snow train, a type of train used to clear snow from rail lines. The snow plow was built as a tender and converted to a wedge-shaped plow in 1953. The locomotive was built in 1903 and served in Wyoming from 1947 to 1957; it served as part of snow trains ...
With the advent of rail travel and later, the automobile, a number of inventors set about to improve existing snow plows. In the US, the "snow-clearer" is said to have been patented as early as the 1840s, [8] for railways. The first snow plow ever built specifically for use with motor equipment was in 1913.
Lake-effect snow happens when cold air, which commonly comes from the direction of Canada, passes over warmer water, causing warmth and moisture to transfer into the lowest part of the atmosphere ...
A precipitation outlook from the Weather Prediction Center shows heavy rain and snow are expected across the Northwest and south-central U.S. between Dec. 26, 2024 and Dec. 28, 2024