Announced Date: |
April 2024 |
Released Date: |
Est. 4th Quarter 2024 |
Individually Boxed: |
N/A |
- Road Name: PanAm Railways
- Road Number: 77, 80
- 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.