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12 hours a day, 6+ days a week for 3 months, Union Pacific and a team of highly skilled contractors made history by rebuilding two Jordan Spreaders, the SPMW 4031 and 4032.
Today, Spreader Snow Plows are the workhorse and backbone for keeping the rails clear of snow and ice during Winter months for the new high-priority double stack trains crossing the Sierra’s own Donner Pass. Since originally built in the 1960′s, the Jordan Spreaders have basically been unchanged until September of 2009 when a team, met with a strict deadline to complete before Winter, undertook the monumental task of completely rebuilding two MEGA machines.
Produced just like a reality tv show, witness the drama and difficulties incurred along the way. The 4031 and 4032 were completed and deployed on the first day of the “storm of the decade” in 2010. In the end, the dedicated crew may have prevailed, but was it ready to plow snow?
High Definition, available in DVD or Blue-Ray!
Length: 1 hour and 20 minutes!
Available in DVD or Blu-ray!
Part II of this program will be available in Winter of 2012/2013. If you’d like to receive a notification, please visit our contact page and place your comment here: http://donnerrails.com/contact/
Just watched my copy of “The Spreader Snow Plow” the New MEGA Machines of the Sierra, and loved it. You had asked if I could send in a review, so here it is:
Very well put together and informing. Can’t wait for part 2 to see them in action!
Wow! What a great, suspenseful program!