M class & snow plow.

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> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:28:46 -0500

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> Subject: Photo of Class M locomotive at Bina, NC

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> During winter months, N&W locomotives with conventional pilots (not  

> the cast

> steel pilots of the As, Js, and K2s) were equipped with small  

> triangular

> "snowplows" attached to the bottom of the pilots.  For example, see  

> photo of

> Y-6 2126 so equipped on page 540 of RAILS REMEMBERED, Volume 3.

>

> Louis Newton



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Thanks. That's a great detail to add to one of my Ms.

Joe Giannovario
Publisher
O Scale Trains Magazine