After seeing the few feet of snow that Lohnes and everybody else in New England has had the misfortune of dealing recently, I couldn’t help but think of how else besides a Honda three-wheeler the locals could dispatch of the cold white stuff that’s been bothering everybody up there. It is an annoyance to some, a menace to others…Fitzgerald even had to drive a Corvette in the stuff. So, short of a miraculous warming trend, what else moves tons of snow?

Oooh, oooh, I know! How about a locomotive with a rotary snowblower? Ok, so it isn’t going to really help anyone in the Northeast for the most part with their day-to-day operations, but these damn things are cool regardless. These things look like something that Freddy Krueger dreamed up to haunt the Christmas dreams of teenagers on Elm Street. It has the ability to eat through snow drifts as tall as it is, and makes a sound that makes me think of the burnt version of Christine as it inches forward, blasting snow off one side. It may be slow going, but unless you have the ability to harness lava, punching through this ice-crusted snowpack isn’t going to be any faster than this.