Take it to the terminal and butcher it–what else? I doubt they would stop to have a barbecue near the scene, don’t you?
I forgot to mention the practice of the crews and regular passengers on the Rock Island’s Peoria train in the last months of its operation–there was no diner on the train, and the regular passengers and the crews brought their suppers, and shared their meals after heating them on the engine. One evening, an irregular passenger commented on what was being eaten (it smelled good), and asked what it was. The answer was, “the engineer didn’t know, for he came up on it too fast.”
Maybe it is just me[sigh] …
But is not the title of this Thread a bit oxy-moronic? [}:)]
“FEC railway snow plows” [:-^]
We know canadian RRs have plows. The question is what do new Mexican locos have ?
Right. Back in the steam day, cast pilots were installed with fold-down couplers to present a clean defective surface to whatever was on the rails. Better to push it aside then run the risk of going over it and derail. Besides, never known when you might be running through two feet of partly cloudy (a tip to the hat of weathermen of past who had no computer models to guide them in their daily forecasts.)
The Pilbara iron ore railways since the 90s have purchased locos imported from the US with snow plows on both ends no less for service in a part of the world where the rest of the world would need to be under 100’ of ice before it snows there. As others have said it’s just easier to leave them on as a tool to deflect debris/animals/cars/people on the tracks.
Considering the recent weather in the South, this may not be that much of an oxymoron.