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United States Army Snow Plow No. SN 87

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Manufacturer
  
O.F. Jordan

Built
  
1953 (1953)

Opened
  
1953

Added to NRHP
  
24 January 2007

Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
06001273

Constructed
  
1953

United States Army Snow Plow No. SN-87

Location
  
1700 Port Rd., Arkansas Railroad Museum, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

The United States Army Snow Plow No. SN-87 is a historic railroad snow plow, that is part of the collection of the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a 74,000-lb. wedge plow, mounted on a pair of trucks, built in 1953 by the O.F. Jordan Company of East Chicago, Indiana, under contract to the United States Army. It was used by the Army until 1990, when it was donated to the museum.

The plow was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

United States Army Snow Plow No. SN-87 Wikipedia