Re: [CBQ] New Walthers HO Scale Jordan Spreader

["Douglas Harding" <iowacentralrr@gmail.com>]

I understand the snow plow was an option on Jordan Spreaders. Attached are three photos. One of the DRGW OU without a plow on the front. Another of the MSTL X-2 Jordan Spreader with a shop made plow added to their spreader. The X-2 was ordered and delivered without a plow on the front.  And a head on photo of a Jordan spreader from the Life magazine collection, which shows a different style of plow.

 

More photos at: http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2017/11/mow-jordan-spreader.html

 

Doug  Harding

www.iowacentralrr.org

 

 

 

From: CBQ@groups.io [mailto:CBQ@groups.io] On Behalf Of Nelson Moyer
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 3:51 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] New Walthers HO Scale Jordan Spreader

 

That large plow on the front wouldn’t be much use for leveling ballast. If it wasn’t for snow, what was it for?

 

Nelson Moyer

 

From: CBQ@groups.io [mailto:CBQ@groups.io] On Behalf Of Leo Phillipp via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 2:25 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] New Walthers HO Scale Jordan Spreader

 

I’ll vouch for Teds comment. I spent a week on a Jordan spreader  re-profiling the track base shoulders on the Fox River branch.

 

Leo Phillipp

 

On May 14, 2020, at 1:27 PM, Ted Schnepf <railsunl@sbcglobal.net> wrote:



Hello,

These machines would be used system wide and more in the Summer, than the winter. Their main work was plowing ditches and leveling ballast.

Winter snows were only incidential work, and many years of not being used in the Winter.

Ted Schnepf
126 Will Scarlet,
Elgin, Ill. 60120


847=697-5353

On Thursday, May 14, 2020, 12:08:04 PM CDT, Nelson Moyer <npmoyer@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

 

I would guess most would be on Lines West, where the wide open spaces promoted drifting. Having been stranded in Western Nebraska this March due to closure of I-80, I have a firsthand appreciation of the need for and importance of snow removal equipment. I trust the Q was better at it than Nebraska DOT.

 

A roster with assignment data would be helpful. Which reminds me, where is the eventually forthcoming MOW book? Or the Black Hills book, for that matter?

 

Nelson Moyer

 

From: CBQ@groups.io [mailto:CBQ@groups.io]On Behalf Of Duncan Cameron
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 11:29 AM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] New Walthers HO Scale Jordan Spreader

 

Anyone know where this might have been usually stationed?

Duncan Cameron

 

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