A rather quaint SNOW-PLOUGH

MAIN SUPPLIES

1 and 0.3mm thick plastic sheet 1mm thick Evergreen board and batten sheet (ref. 4544) Evergreen plastic strips, 0.6 x 0.8mm (ref. 8203), L-shaped 1.5 x 1.5mm (ref. 291) and round diam. 0.75mm (ref 210). 0.3mm thick brass sheet Offcuts of U- or L-shaped brass strips

A TRAIN IN THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS

Building this snow-plough was inspired by the following video on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDzMjYbu8qk) where a snow-plough is propelled by locomotive TU4 nº 1693, on the Vyhoda to Mindunok-Solotvenski forestry railway, in the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains.

CONSTRUCTION

The basis was a commercially-sourced passenger carriage that provided a loading gauge (height and width). A small scale figure was used to confirm a few