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Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
1889 - RW&O Railroad Leslie Rotary Plow
Built by the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works of Patterson, NJ in January 1889 as builder's number 28 for the Rome Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad. Original Number not yet known. This Leslie Rotary plow fought the heavy lake effect snows along the shores of Lake Ontario from Lewiston to Watertown.
The New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. acquired the RW&O in 1891 and the plow was renumbered as X-659, later NYC X-659, PC 60021 and CR 64599. The plow weighs in at 79 tons. Originally steam powered, the plow was converted to electric in 1951. Four large EMD traction motors power the large rotating fan blades. The plow was used extensively during Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and was last used during the winter of 1993-1994.
The Plow is fully operational and still retains its original "Fox Plate Trucks", although the axles were converted to roller bearings. It is the oldest Standard Gauge Rotary plow in existence east of the Mississippi.
The WNYRHS acquired the plow from CSX Transportation in November 2003 and is currently stored serviceable in Hamburg, New York.
NYC Flanger - #64569
CR 64569, ex. PC 60079, was built by the Russell Snow Plow Company of Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, for the New York Central System in November, 1948. It weighs 89,000 lbs.
It was designed as a single-wedge flanger for the movement of snow off the multiple tracks of the NYC's, New York to Chicago mainline. It also was aquired by the Society in November of 2003 from CSX Transportation and is stored serviceable in Hamburg, New York. |  |
All photo's ©2004 Joe Kocsis & smph50
C&O PLOW - #914025
Built by the Chesapeake&Ohio RR in 1965 and originally numbered SP - 25. Equipped with Pere Marquette trucks, #914025 weighs in at 42,800 lbs and is 44'-4" in length. It was last used in service on the B&O (B&P) in 1986 seeing service between Buffalo and Salamanca, New York. Stored serviceable in Hamburg. |  |
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