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sifter wire ahead of snow blower

The model performs best when the snow (real or artificial) is broken up so it can enter the blowing...

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2011

Motor drive inside of Rotary Plow

I mounted an old Athearn motor in an Athearn HO scale Rotary snow plow.

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2011

Electrical contact shoes

The blowing wheel motor draws power from the track. And the most reliable power pickup is through...

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2011

working wing cylinders

The cylinders are wire and tubes. The right side is on a linkage to automatically move the wing out...

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2011

Jordan Spreader

Members of the audience turn a crank to move the Jordan Spreader through the snow.

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2011

Rotary Snow Blower HO scale

The rotary chews it's way through the snow. And throws it up the mountain side.

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2011

fishline swivel hooked to plow

The motive power for the plows is fishline, which is often invisible to the viewers.

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2011

Hand crank for the audience

The audience provides the power to move the trains. The crank rod powers a fishline winch to move...

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2011

Snow Plowing Easy as Pie display

The display is 8 feet long, but the snow banks are just 3 feet of it. I enjoy watching real trains...

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2011

Blue loco over blue water

Noon time run over the Plover River trestle, in Whiting, Wisconsin. For more pictures from the...

Uploaded on Nov 26, 2010 | Map

Roch a Cri State Park

One of the dozens of monadnochs (lone mounds) in Wisconsin's Driftless Area. This one is the tallest, 300 feet. Kite Aerial Photography.

Uploaded on Nov 16, 2010 | Map

tree 1, KAP 0

Two years since I've hung a picavet rig in a tree. Lucky I also do Pole Aerial Photography. I was at the limit of the pole, 36 feet.

Uploaded on Aug 23, 2009

A-Mazing Wisconsin Corn

Labyrinth trails in corn fields for the brave and adventurous families looking for a rural day of fun.

Uploaded on Aug 23, 2009

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Oshkosh Ice Melt

Fox River March thaw

Uploaded on Mar 28, 2009

Amherst Millpond

Old landmark was due to be torn down during the Summer, but got a reprieve. Passerby posed for the...

Uploaded on Nov 5, 2008

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better by a dam site

see the whole panoramic on my web page, it's 10 times wider, see brucerail001.webng.com/w0810 18wrd/a081018.html

Uploaded on Oct 30, 2008