Saturday, January 9, 2016

Ready for winter

Niall MacKay, Over the Hills to Georgian Bay, Boston Mills Press, 1981
Although locomotives in Ontario were usually fitted with plows, large wedge plows, this one constructed of wood, were employed in clearing heavy snowfalls. According to thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
the Grand Trunk owned 49 snowplows by the late 1880s.

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