I would imagine that a turntable had very limited horse power, but that they would repeatedly throughout the day and night, exercise the turntable so that it could push a couple inch's of snow aside, so that the turntable could be positioned to the most usually used tracks. A turntable was mostly used to do this, and was more somewhat rarely spun a full 360 degrees. But if they had to enable a full 360 degree rotation, an army of workers would have to be sent down into the pit with manual snow shovels, or a portable conveyor would have to be lifted twice into each side of the pit by a rail crane on the turntable, to assist the snow shoveler's (either that, or employ lots of little kids in the area, to shovel the GD (slight chance of partly cloudy) solid rain).
I would imagine that a wye track would also be placed in these continual heavy snowfall prone railroad areas, such as Buffalo.
Perhaps they had a steam hose manned by a roundhouse hostler, who would melt the snow, so that it melt and would flow down a central drain in the center of the pit.
I would imagine that a secondary, straight track, repair shed was constructed for emergency heavy repairs to locomotives.
I don't use 4 letter wurds' much: Cold, Snow, Work, Brrr :hehe: I remember a time when Sledding was lots of fun, and climbing up a steep hill, just in order to fall down it, made actual sense.
Casper the Friendly Ghost didn't heed his mothers warning that he come inside from playing in the snow before he got too cold, and he caught influenza, and died, becoming a Friendly Ghost, a true fact from episode 1 of the cartoon !
When we were kids, Winters were so snowy and so icy, that we had to wrap our feet in barbed wire, just in order to get traction on the ice, and we had no shoes, and we had to actually shovel our way to, and from, school, and it was uphill, both ways !
Horse Power, we need mor' Mule Power !
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