Is It The Snow Plow Or The Cow Catcher ?...

[Track_Fiddler]

That was some funny stuff Brent.

I liked it.

[Bayfield_Transfer_Ra]

It’s a snow catcher.

Or a cow plow.

…I’ll show myself out…

[Track_Fiddler]

It’s a snow catcher.

Or a cow plow.

…I’ll show myself out…

Definitely the cow catcher

Funny Bayfield I guess I’ll be right behind you

Hold the door open for me I’ll have to show myself out too

[ALLAN_D_DAHNCKE]

It’s called the “pilot,” although popular parlance uses cow catcher. Not all pilots are triangle things – simple footboards are also pilots, and some pilots in the late steam era were not really triangle shaped either, such as the front of the Big Boy.

Dave Nelson

PS (edited post): Mark Twain told the story of being on a train so slow that he suggested to the conductor that the cow catcher should be taken off the front of the locomotive and be put on the back of the rear coach, because “at the speed we are going we aren’t going to catch many cows, but there is nothing to prevent them from climbing up the back steps.”

DN

It’s called the “pilot,” although popular parlance uses cow catcher. Not all pilots are triangle things – simple footboards are also pilots, and some pilots in the late steam era were not really triangle shaped either, such as the front of the Big Boy.

Dave Nelson

PS (edited post): Mark Twain told the story of being on a train so slow that he suggested to the conductor that the cow catcher should be taken off the front of the locomotive and be put on the back of the rear coach, because “at the speed we are going we aren’t going to catch many cows, but there is nothing to prevent them from climbing up the back steps.”

DN

That’s hilarious…

[ACY_Tom]

Adults call it a pilot. A lot of children call it a cowcatcher in the mistaken belief it is a benign, humane device. It never was.

Tom

[BATMAN]

Adults call it a pilot. A lot of children call it a cowcatcher in the mistaken belief it is a benign, humane device. It never was.

Tom

Unfortunately I have seen the results of interaction of trains and bear, moose and deer while hiking the C.P. mainline in the Rockies. It ruins your day I’ll tell ya.

[Track_Fiddler]

Brent I feel your pain. I always hate seeing an animals life shortened, especially in the spring.

I remember one time following the car in front of me. This rabbit ran out and was clipped and flipped. Just enough to make it suffer. What’s worse than an animals life shortened, is an animal suffering.

I did the only Humane thing. I pulled over. It was heart-wrenching. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard a rabbit in distress, they cry like a little baby.

The only thing to do was stomp on his head and put him out of his misery. Sad but the right thing to do.

[:S][:(][#oops][#offtopic] Track fiddler

P.S. Zoom in and look for the dead seagull. I don’t know if he swooped fast around the bridge pier and didn’t see the train or was deaf and just didn’t hear it. Regardless kind of sad.

[jeffhergert]

I was reading a recrew report for the railroad I work for. (It’s a report giving a brief reason why a train had to be recrewed on line-usually because of hours of service.) The individual listings are written up by someone in the dispatching center. Recently, one train was delayed leading to a recrew because a concrete crossing pad worked itself loose. It became jammed, according to the person reporting the cause, under the locomotive’s cowcatcher.

Jeff