Rotating snow shovel - Rotating snow shovel

Japanese: 回転雪搔車 - かいてんゆきかきしゃ
Rotating snow shovel - Rotating snow shovel

...railroad vehicles used for clearing snow from tracks. There are the Russell snow-plow (Russell is the name of the inventor), which is equipped with a wedge-shaped snow-clearing plate at the front end of the car body and uses it to push snow to the left and right of the track, the rotary snow-plow (rotary snow-plow) which uses a rotor to throw snow far away, and the Mackley's snow-plow (Mackley is the name of the inventor) which cuts down the wall of snow at the edge of the track and supplies snow to the rotary snow-plow. Japan's National Railways (now JR) first used the Russell snow-plow, imported from the United States, in Hokkaido in 1911, and in 1923, the rotary snow-plow was also introduced from the United States.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "rotating snow shovel" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…線路の除雪作業を行う鉄道車両。車体の前端部にくさび形をした除雪板(スノープラウ)を装備し,これで雪を線路の左右にはね飛ばすラッセル車Russel snow‐plow(Russelは発明者の名),回転羽根(ローター)で雪を遠方に投げ飛ばすロータリー車(回転雪搔車)rotary snow‐plow,線路際の雪の壁を切り崩してロータリー車に雪を供給するマックレー車Mackley’s snow‐plow(Mackleyは考案者の名)などがある。日本の国鉄(現JR)では,1911年にアメリカから輸入したラッセル車を北海道で使用したのが最初で,23年にはロータリー車が同じくアメリカから導入された。…

※「回転雪搔車」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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