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This is a regular Russell plow that probably came out of Concord. Before the abandonment of the Plymouth-Blackmount portion of the old BC&M line, there was an old double-tracked wooden snowplow stored north of the station on the Plymouth yard. It had trucks with inboard bearings similar to the old 4-4-0 pilot trucks. When I mentioned that to the RR crews, they said they were not re-purposed pilot trucks but were so to prevent freeze up of the bearings. I once saw a south-bound plow extra from Woodsville (through the Warren Cut) arrive in Plymouth with a standard Russell single track plow. The crew couldn't uncouple due to the couplings being frozen so they thawed it out with a fusee

Posted by Steven Hall on 2017-02-23 12:54:08

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