Description: PC0002 Image no. 239. Snow plow at Cisco. Also TRR0212
Photographer/artist: Alfred A. Hart
Date taken: 1860s
Photo location: Cisco
Type: photo
Subject: Transcontinental Railroad Construction
County:
Source: Stanford Collection
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Contributor: Stanford Libraries
Notes: Original image is 3.6 MB. HCS 1/16/2022. Image at Stanford site. See also Goldbaum and Huffman's 2012 book, Waiting for the Cars, p. 208. The authors noted that as many as 12 snowplows were required to push one of these snowplows through the area's heavy snow drifts. Not until 1888 was the battle of snow vs. train revolutionized with the introduction of steam-powered rotary snowplows. See also Glenn Willumson, Iron Muse (UC Press Berkeley 2013), p. 71.
See also John Signor's 1985 book, Donner Pass, p. 44, about Bucker Snowplow CPRR No. 1.
Rights: NOT FOR SALE; research only
Identifier: AAH0077
Serial Number: 2131
Donation: Alfred A. Hart Collection (AAH) collection (#34)
