Comments on: During a day filled with snow squalls and heavy winds, Ontario Southland Railways crews were hard at work plowing both their lines to Tillsonburg and St. Thomas. Here, the plow is seen uncoupled beside the Salford shop as the pair of FP9u’s had went ahead to battle some deep drifts solo just outside Salford. A short time later, the FP9u’s would return and couple to plow 401005 resuming snow clearing efforts for the remainder of the afternoon on the St. Thomas Subdivision. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: RonaldB http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=58390#comment-67215 RonaldB Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:44:23 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Ontario-Southland-Railway-Plow-401005-Salford-Ontario-February-18-2025-Photo-By-Jason-Noe.jpg#comment-67215 Salford was usually the location of the heaviest drifting on the Port Burwell Sub. The cut right near where the shop is now, would fill in sometimes higher than the train. It was common to make two or three runs to clear that cut. One time I was on a plow and we kept derailing at that location. After reraling the plow about 5 times, the company called a contractor to bring in a huge front end loader to clear the cut. After he finished, we 'tweaked" it a bit and continued all the way to Port Burwell. The reason we kept derailing, was that the company failed to run a plow on the weekend when the late Friday snow was softened by Saturday rain and by the time we were called Monday, a flash freeze had turned the whole mess rock hard. Salford was usually the location of the heaviest drifting on the Port Burwell Sub. The cut right near where the shop is now, would fill in sometimes higher than the train. It was common to make two or three runs to clear that cut. One time I was on a plow and we kept derailing at that location. After reraling the plow about 5 times, the company called a contractor to bring in a huge front end loader to clear the cut. After he finished, we ‘tweaked” it a bit and continued all the way to Port Burwell. The reason we kept derailing, was that the company failed to run a plow on the weekend when the late Friday snow was softened by Saturday rain and by the time we were called Monday, a flash freeze had turned the whole mess rock hard.

]]> By: RonaldB http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=58390#comment-67214 RonaldB Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:38:41 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Ontario-Southland-Railway-Plow-401005-Salford-Ontario-February-18-2025-Photo-By-Jason-Noe.jpg#comment-67214 Don Broadbear always said F units made good plows. Don Broadbear always said F units made good plows.

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