“Remember the blizzard that hit the Christchurch area?” asks reader Argiris Diamantis. “There was so much snowfall that a heavy locomotive was used to plow the tracks and to clear the route.”
The Kiwirail train is plowing a route through Arthur’s Pass (el. 920 m.), a mountain pass in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand.
The pass is named after Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson (1841–1934), who led the first party of Europeans across the pass in 1864.
So much for global warming.
See entire article:
http://www.gadling.com/2012/06/08/video-new-zealand-train-plows-heavy-snow-from-tracks/
Thanks to Argiris Diamantis in the Netherlands for this link
If the above link doesn’t work, you can also see the video here:
http://www.flixxy.com/train-plowing-through-deep-snow-in-new-zealand.htm
Thanks to Mel for this link
“My brain jumps to an analogy w/ the train… “The PatriotExpress – us against the warmers,” says Mel.
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They could have used that back in ’52 when the City of San Francisco got stuck on Donner’s pass.
And we’re still getting this kind of thing from the msm: http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/u-s-experiences-its-warmest-spring-on-record/
Aside from the global warming hype, that’s a great video for a railroad enthusiast like me.
be interesting to see what dudley dobsons diary says re the weather in those times:-)
That’s a large amount of snow for this early in the season. Nice video !
That’s a fairly low elevation snow event for such a moderate, Marine West Coast Climate Zone.