<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ru-x_8zFwg" target="_blank">[video=youtube;1Ru-x_8zFwg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ru-x_8zFwg[/video] Well, some snow managed to slip into the layout room through a small opening between the door and the wall. I decided to put the Plows on my Genesis GP15 to work and clear the main. Enjoy!
Cool vid. Now get that geep back to the service facilityto get dried out!!! :ru-shocked: Best of luck with the weather. I got out of Denver yesterday just in time to miss all the "fun". Brian
Nice video, but I would never consider running through snow even with a plow. I know how my other electronics respond to moisture. Contrary to popular opinion, BlackBerries can't do everything, they neither swim nor float. Even if the unit is not DCC, a warm running motor is going to melt snow and that could never be good. Any way, thanks for the video and doing what most of us would never even consider attempting.
But where does one find some scale sand? Even as it is, that's going the extra mile for realism! Hope the plywood doesn't warp.
I doubt the electronics got wet, if it was an older athearn I would be concerned about the trucks rusting. But not the genesis.
I always considered dumping a bunch of powder on my layout and having a day of just running plow trains. Ah... but the clean up...
if the snow can get in then the rain will be able to as well. I would suggest you find a way to seal that opening so that your hard earned money and work does not get ruined pretty cool video, thanks
Nice plowing on the layout. Anytime someone says, "Oh no snow on the layout!"... I post this link. This guy's been running in all weather using DCC for years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWSqUSO9vrQ and yes it's ho scale.
Never thougth I'd see that! However a lot of roads who ran through non-snow (normally) areas also had snow plows - basically to help intinerant idiots and their vehicles moving on.
This is where an OLD blue-box F7, equipped with a large plow a la UP's Fs, would come into play. I'd be scared witless to run a Genesis thru that stuff. BTW, how much snow did you get in your neck o' the woods?
we ended up with around a foot and a half actual fall. but the snow was blown into drifts up to 4-5 feet tall by the wind.
