LGB Limited edition - IIm scale Steam Rotary snow plough/plow

There's a great video of XRot 9213 in action on the "A Year with LGB" DVD from November 2010. This was one of the LGB Club specials that came with membership that year. The video was produced by 1. Klass Video. Well worth watching if you can find a copy. This thread has prompted me to watch it again tonight. Steve, the plow driver looks forward through a porthole window that can't be more than 2 feet in diameter. See the last picture by Keith in post 77. The windshield wiper is hand operated by a lever above the window on the inside! One more thing for the driver to worry about. I don't remember how he communicated with the fireman and the helper railcar. Will know after re-watching the video.

I begin collecting Social Security this year. You can guess what I've already committed about a quarter of the first years payments to!

Phil S.
 
Just finished re-watching "Steam and Snow" featuring the rotary plow XRot 9213 clearing the Bernina line. I'd forgotten many of the details. What follows is a brief description of snow clearing in what appears to be the 1980s or 1990s for those who may be curious.

The plows on regularly scheduled trains push snow to the sides of the right-of-way. It soon builds up to the point where it needs tending to.
A typical snow clearing consist for the steam powered self-propelled rotary plow includes three repurposed ABe 4/4I railcars. One railcar hauls a "clearing wagon" ahead of the plow. The clearing wagon has wings that extend to either or both sides of the right-of-way. The wings funnel snow accumulated to the side of the track back between the rails. Then the following rotary plow throws the snow well clear of the line. Two railcars coupled behind the plow give a needed assist pushing where the snow is particularly deep or heading up a grade. Communication between the clearing crew ahead, the rotary plow driver and pusher railcars is by "constant radio contact".

Phil S.
 
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There’s a really nice working steam powered rotary snow plow on the narrow gauge White Pass & Yukon Route in Alaska. There are some videos of it doing its thing on YouTube (I have it on DVD).

I’d love a working rotary G plow but I only get a couple of snow days per year.
 
tac foley said:
As for the comment from above, a quote from somewhere or other that may or may not be LGB-related, advising the lucky owner that sticking their pinkies into a metal blade rotating at n-thousand rpm seems a mite insulting to me.

tac
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From LGB authorised dealer, P&S Hobbies - the fan is plastic and it is not designed to blow real snow. I trust you feel less insulted now.
 
You might want a bigger motor too Paul. P&S report that the mechanism is not built for snow clearing.
 
C'mon, folks, it's a moving but non-operative model, right? It LOOKS as though it should work, but doesn't.

It makes the sounds.

It wiggles all the wiggly bits.

It lights up.

It toots.

It 'smokes'.

The blades whirl around like the real thing does.

But it doesn't blow snow like the real one does.

Whaddya want for under five grand?

tac
 
It does look like it. I wonder who the manufacturer is. 100% brass as well. Loads of bits available as kits.

It makes one wonder where all the parts have come from to make these and the LGB one.
 
It says in the description that it is fully functioning - and it weighs 12 kilos - sheer weight alone would push the snow aside.
Pity it is an American retailer - the taxes that HM Highway Robbers would impose would take the shine off it.
 
The links on the page infer you can 'just' obtain the rotary part?? - If that gives anyone ideas? :devil::devil:
 
stevedenver said:
wow.
looks better to my eye, more railroad, more proportioned.

bet its not got all the LGB stuff, sound, smoke, lights, internal dirve????

its getting harder and harder to find REAL value..........LOL

just the round red front intake scoop , motor, etc, for the rotary is well over $600
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https://www.trainli.com/snow-plows-179/fr-130106-p-1253

This implies $70.00 for the 'doings' end ??

If so, a bargain.. Very tempted!!
 
I saw the RhB Xrot snowplough at the LGB event at GRS in Princes Risborough (UK) today. It is an exquisite model, very detailed but not quite as impressive in size in the harsh light of day as the photographs of it IMO. Perhaps it would have been better to see it running. Slightly off topic but related to the new LGB stuff, I was impressed by the rollwagens, they do look nice, I might be tempted. The 50th anniversary RhB Ge 4/4 II also looks very impressive, that was running on rollers being driven by a Maerklin CS3 controller (I think). The RhB Heidi was on display as well, so lots for Rhaetian fans, but I'm not an RhB collector (yet).
 
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