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….........................--- U.P. N Scale Rotary Snow Plow Pt. 2 ---

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Made some slight mods to the two prints to thicken the grab irons up some and a couple other things and got some good prints.

Link to12V Micro Electric Gear Motor ( HERE ), 2mm bearings ( HERE) and 2mm shaft ( HERE ).

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There are two locations on each side of the plow to glue bracing rods back from the front sides of the plow back to the rear of the blade housing and to the frame.

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A short overview of the U.P. rotary snow plow at this point ( HERE ).

Union Pacific used a tender from a 2-8-8-2 they had removed from service in 1949 ( UP #3672) for the updated 03005 rotary snow plow (later numbered 0074 then 900074 -- removed from service in 1969). The 2-8-8-2 had come from the Norfolk & Western Railway.

The plow had been converted from coal fired to oil fired around 1950 and the tender was also converted by adding a tank for the oil. I haven't been able to find any accurate drawings for the tender so have designed off of pictures of the tender used on U.P.'s 3672 2-8-8-2. This was the tender used behind the plow and there are a number of models of the 2-8-8-2 that could be bought but can't find the tender alone for sale so embarked on doing this design.

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Close to doing the first print. Most likely some things will need to be changed from what you see above at that point.

To be continued.....

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