Snow sweeper, Portland, ca. 1910
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Seashore Trolley Museum
Snow sweeper
Snow sweepers were designed to sweep snow off of the street railway track, typically during light snow falls.
The sweeper was a closed car mounted high on a single truck. Beneath the floor of the car, at each end, rotating brooms made of flexible rattan sticks were set at an angle of about 45 degrees to the center line to throw the snow to one side of the track.
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