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These days, UP has the rotary snow engine they use to clear things up towards Donner. For the most part it’s usually parked in Roseville (I believe).

A neat video - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iSe1izplce0

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What an awesome machine. The shot at 10m27s is very cool: https://youtu.be/iSe1izplce0?t=10m27s

The ones SP had back then couldn't get through the snow. Article says they had 4 of the things trying to clear the tracks.

The current one is sometimes in Portola, CA, old rail town trying to survive. Usually during their railway days (they have a rail museum). It’s a sight.

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