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From: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:06:53 -0500
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January 27, 2015
 
What with all the consternation today on cable TV about the severity of the blizzard that just smacked New York City and Boston, here's an image (both inserted and attached) of an unidentified CB&Q Class M-2 or M-2-A (or even, perhaps, an O-3) being dug out with shovels after having stalled while "bucking" through a snow drift. Now, this snow event was a genuinely SEVERE blizzard:
 
 
The image is both unidentified and undated, but I'd speculate the location is somewhere on Lines West during the Great Blizzard of January 1949 that paralyzed the States of Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas for weeks. If the locomotive's Pyle National "winged" headlight looks just a little odd with "white number boards," that's because it's packed full of snow.
 
Evidentially, the M or O Class locomotive hit the last drift before it stalled with enough force to have the snow knock out the headlight glass, reflector and side boards. What a miserable job it must've been to shovel out this locomotive in below zero temperatures to clear the mainline. Makes me cold just to look at this image. Best Regards - Louis
 
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL   


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