Watch for snow

Ouch!!

 

A little more gentle. Philadelphia sweeper C-145 at the Baltimore Trolley Museum.

 

WOW!

 

One of the perils of winter railfanning!

 

AF

I prefer a slightly slower approach and a somewhat earlier style.

 

Chris, Bill, thanks for posting the interesting videos.  The snow from the high speed Amtrak train must have stung!  I have seen numerous photos of trolley sweepers, but that is the first time I have seen what it looks like in action.

Chris the video of the high speed Amtrak hitting the snow made me duck. Even at slow speed it still looks pretty dang fast. I had never seen a trolly sweeping snoe before. Thanks Chris and Bill for the videos.

I'm sure you have all seen this before, but it's still my favorite snow video!

 

Yeah Mike that is always great to see....steam and snow.

All of this is the exact reason why no one should crowd a road crossing right after the roads have been plowed and before a train has cleared its path again of the detritus.

 

Quite frankly, I used to love doing that and watching the snow fly. 

Imagine if there were chunks of ice in there as well...  Always stay back is right.

Steve Glishinski (Trains photographer) tells a story of parking his car a little too close to the tracks while taking pics of a railroad snowplow clearing the tracks, resulting in a completely shattered windshield. Gets pretty cold driving when the temperatures around zero and you got no windshield in front of you!! Fortunately, a nearby small town had a glass repair place that replaced the windshield in only an hour or so.

I've been whacked twice.  First time a beach ball sized clump of snow hit me and knocked my camera right out of my hands.  I had to dig around for it.  Second time I was up on top of an 8 ft. drift.  I thought I was safe because the plow had only been going about 20 mph and I was positioned just beyond where the snow was landing.  However, I was in front of a huge drift.  They ran the plow at it doing about 35 mph, sending an avalanche right on me.  It knocked me off the drift and buried me when I landed.  One hard packed clump of snow thumped me pretty hard on the back, despite my thick goose down parka.  I haven't got that close to plows since.  I put the camera on a tripod and trigger it remotely with a CyberSync.

 

 

Kent in SD

Nice pictures.

 

I also enjoy shooting in the snow, rain, fog or otherwise "inclement" weather. Here's a pic that I like plus a video for your enjoyment.

 

Paul

Excellent photos.

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It knocked me off the drift and buried me when I landed.

I bet that crew was laughing their butts off! 

I did seem to catch their attention.  A close up of the crew inside:

 

 

Kent in SD

WOW Great Pictures. Thanks for posting

I know I would have been.