Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 207
m the white prison, the whole trainbacks off a couple of hundred yards and takes anew start. Down the track it sweeps, gatheringspeed and momentum with every puff-puff ofthe exhaust, and smash! it goes headlong atthe drift, mighty fan-wheel whirling, enginespushing, men yelling, snow scrunching,… … SHOWING THE FRONT END OF A ROTARY SNOW-PLOW,AT REST. an easy time of it. But, more often, the mightyrush of the train, engines, snow-plow, and caris brought to a sudden halt by the soft packedmass, and once more the shovelers must dig thesnow-plow out. Again the train backs away,again the momentum…
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