NickD said:While Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern had gone through and plowed out the line from Utica to Boonville, they had not cleared out the passing track at Remsen (Why would they? They don't use it), and there was a huge 5 foot bank of snow across the passing track at the siding, and all the switches and switch stands were also completely snowed in. I looked at it and went, "Why didn't they run push-pull so that they don't have to monkey with the runaround track?" And then I'm wondering if they're going to try and instead make a shove move all the way back to Utica. After all, a snow bank that's been made by a snow plow is often like concrete, and the flangeways were all packed with snow, which is a great way to derail. Well, I heard them drop the air and saw the #2400 backing away from the train and figured they were going to try and clear the snow, so I set up my camera and got some video. You can hear brakeman Jay Baycura yell that he wants to see the video. They ended up fighting with the south switch for a while and I mentioned to another brakeman that it would have made more sense to run push-pull, and he said that was the plan but the #1845 started giving the hogger grief, and they couldn't get it to cooperate for the trip north.
He's gonna need a new broom.
