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Built in 1898, Long Island Railroad #193 Rotary Snow Plow worked on the Long Island Railroad for sixty-nine years until its retirement in 1967. A Canadian-invented design created to reduce the cost of snow removal, it used rotary blades to disperse snow much like a modern snowblower. This type of plow was most commonly used on routes through the Great Plains and western mountain ranges, where deep snow drifts were common, and the Long Island Railroad was one of only seven railroads east of the Mississippi to purchase a rotary snow plow.
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