Atlas O 3001676 - Premier - Snow Plow "Chessie System" (Chesapeake & Ohio)

• Road Name: Chessie System (C&O)
• Road Number: 914021, 914023
• Product Line: Premier
• Scale: O Scale
• System: 3-Rail

Features:

• Metal Wheels and Axles
  
• Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  
• Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
  
• Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
  
• Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  
• Needle-Point Axles
  
• 1:48 Scale Dimensions
  
• Stamped Metal Floors
  
• Separate Metal Handrails
  
• Operates On O-31 Curves (3-Rail)

Overview:

For railroads in much of the U.S. and Canada, dealing with snow is a perennial problem. The earliest railroad plows were likely derived from
agricultural plows, and were the first instance of a plow being pushed from behind rather than pulled by horses or oxen. In 1840, little more than
a decade after the first steam engine plied American rails, Charles Lowbaert was granted a patent for a wedge, or “bucker,” railroad plow. Like
our model, that pioneering snowplow featured an inclined plane to bring the snow up off the rails and a pointed, triangular wedge to throw it
to both sides of the track. Over time, railroad plows evolved into an arsenal of equipment ranging from engine-mounted blades to the ultimate
snowfighting weapon, the rotary snow plow.