Then and Now: Snow Plows

District snow plows, then and now. Left: Ford Motor Company snow plow equipment ca. 1925 in front of the District Building. (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress collection). Right: DDOT snow plows in front of RFK stadium, November 5, 2010. (Photo from the DDOTDC flickr pool).

The image below is also from the DDOTDC flickr pool, and shows a Caterpillar Industrial Loader used in snow removal efforts from February 9, 2010.

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This entry was posted on December 27, 2010 at 7:01 am and is filed under City services, History. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

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One Comment on “Then and Now: Snow Plows”

Western Snow Plows Says:

January 27, 2011 at 12:44 pm
That is an interesting use for an industrial loader, makes for a great pic tho.

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