This wasn't America's first electric snow plow. I can't find my books on
the MILW but I'm sure they had electric rotaries long before 1949.
According to Ira Swett's Interurbans of Utah the Salt Lake & Utah built
an electric rotary snowplow circa 1923 (page 47). On page 88 there's a
photo of it on the Utah-Idaho Central.
Norm Metcalf
Boulder CO
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From: <trainmanwes@w...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:02 AM
Subject: [BRHSlist] CB&Q snow plow
> For meany Q fans a piece of history may be scrapped. Last week the BNSF
> called the Lincoln Neb. rotary which has spent most of the winter at
> Willmar MN, for plow duty. Running on the Willmar Sub. the blad bearing
> came apart causing catastrophic damage to the snow shoot and wiping off
> all blades on the plows front end. At this time there no plans for
> rebuild.
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> Q fans should remember this plow as CB&Q # 205028 Rebuilt at the
> Denver Shops in 1949 to become America,s first electric powered plow.
> The BN # was 972558
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