48 Responses to “Still operational 1898 rotary snow plow”

1. M MIlls Says:
   July 7th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

   This is the Whitepass and Yukon route rail snowplow based in Skagway Alaska.

2. JDS Says:
   July 7th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

   Too COOL…. I was just in Skagway last week and saw this snow plow….. What a strange coincidence….

3. Noah Says:
   July 7th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

   @JDS:

   WHOA - what is weirder is that I just saw this link from Gizmodo, thought, “weird, I just saw that last week in Skagway.” and apparantly so did you. Weird.

4. Guy Says:
   July 7th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

   Mega WHOA! I too was in Skagway last week and saw it. Was there a computer conference at the top of the world last week and I didn’t know about it??!!!

5. Dennis Says:
   July 8th, 2008 at 8:07 am

   My wife and I visited Ankerage during the equinox this year and saw one of these in a park on the road south to the animal rescue center.

6. MajorGay Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

   Genital warts (or Condyloma, Condylomata acuminata, or venereal warts) is a highly contagious sexually transmitted infection caused by some sub-types of human papillomavirus (HPV). It is spread through direct skin-to-skin contact during oral, genital, or anal sex with an infected partner. Genital warts are the most easily recognized sign of genital HPV infection. They can be caused by strains 6, 11, 30, 42, 43, 44, 45, 51, 52 and 54 of genital HPV; types 6 and 11 are responsible for 90% of genital warts cases.[1] Most people who acquire those strains never develop warts or any other symptoms. HPV also causes many cases of cervical cancer; types 16 and 18 account for 70% of cases.

   Genital warts often occur in clusters and can be very tiny or can spread into large masses in the genital or penis area. In women they occur on the outside and inside of the vagina, on the opening (cervix) to the womb (uterus), or around the anus. They are approximately as prevalent in men, but the symptoms may be less obvious. When present, they usually are seen on the tip of the penis. They also may be found on the shaft of the penis, on the scrotum, or around the anus. Rarely, genital warts also can develop in the mouth or throat of a person who has had oral sex with an infected person.

   The viral particles are able to penetrate the skin and mucosal surfaces through microscopic abrasions in the genital area, which occur during sexual activity. Once cells are invaded by HPV, a latency (quiet) period of months to years may occur. HPV virus can last from 3 months to 2 years without a symptom.[citation needed] Having sex with a partner whose HPV infection is latent and demonstrates no outward symptoms still leaves one vulnerable to becoming infected.
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7. kingdoc Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

   HEY! I was in Skagway just last week and I got Genital Warts while “pulling a train”!

8. rob shindler Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

   Holy crap! I was just in skagway and I saw that!!!

9. Jomama Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

   What are the odds? I was in Skagway too, and saw that plow… and then I poisoned all the water in the town, with a slow-acting carcinogen. Hope none of you drank any beverages while you were there!

10. Jimguru Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    I have never been in Skagway, never had genital warts, never drank carcinogenic beverages…but I WAS at the computer conference. Coincidence? - I think not…

11. Bob Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    Holy crap that’s awesome. All they need to do know is switch out those plow-blades with chainsaws and you got yourself a vehicle no one gets in the way of.

12. Richard Mongler Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    I was running a train on this chick with genital warts and my mom got scared And said, “You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.”I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror If anything I could say that this cab was rare But I thought, “Nah, forget it. Yo home to Bel-Air!” I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8and I yelled to the cabby yo holmes smell ya later Looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.

13. brian v Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

    i was plowing this slut with genital warts on the way to Skagway yesterday when the train got stuck in the snow. we huddled together for hours under the ancorage moonlight and ground our bodies together furiously to maintain some semblance of warmth before this 1898 snow plow came to save us.

14. admin Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Hah! I think this time I’ll have to leave that original spam message up there.

15. Rob Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    Looks like what Hell would use to drill into our world. Amazing.

16. Jimguru Says:
    July 19th, 2008 at 12:22 am

    You Guys are making up stories!….Isn’t it obvious this is ’shopped!…totally

17. ChopShopped Says:
    July 19th, 2008 at 3:08 am

    Sweet God and Baby Jesus.

    That is me sitting off to the side against the building. I am here now typing this on my laptop. This is not shopped. This has to be live web cam.

    how can i see myself as i am sitting here otherwise?

18. nelzone Says:
    July 19th, 2008 at 3:33 am

    Not shopped - shooped - lol - the photo is cool, i feel a strange need to go to Skagway, but the comments are amongst the most beautiful things i have ever seen on the webernet. I must now go and apply ointment to my pet squirrels genital warts, poor little guy.

19. Cool Photo Collections Says:
    July 19th, 2008 at 4:37 am

    wow, very fascinating

    I’d love to see it, but it’s ‘just’ some thousands of kilometers away from here…

20. Steve Says:
    July 19th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    Skagway, Oh yeah you turn left at Alberquerque… yeah? so ho was the conference?

21. anonymous Says:
    July 19th, 2008 at 9:35 am

    shopped

    This photo looks Shopped! I can tell from some of the pixels, and from having seen quite a few shops in my day.

22. jonesy Says:
    July 19th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    WHOOOAAAA!!!!!!!

    this must be the weirdest coincidence. I was attending a conference in skagway (on the topic of genital warts and computers) and I saw this snow plow train while plowing this chick in a ‘train’ as i looked out the window of my hotel room.

    While warmth was not an issue during said plowing, i felt that the plow train was giving off bad vibes. during the entire incident (about 2-3 minutes) i could not help but think why pepsi why? But still pepsi max is delicious and no calories and so thus i was enamored with the product, both for its ‘extreme marketing’ packaging (which appeals to the 20-something extreme sports enthusiast within me, as well as the fat slob who loves to sit on the couch) and its attractive taste.

    Overall I would choose disney land over universal studios because giant mice are much more welcoming than the overt sexuality and hedonism of hollywood. (i’m half venezuelan and half mauritian so this obviously makes a difference).

    God bless you and all of your pets (except for poodles, which seem to have a very uppity attitude and are in general quite narcissistic). Praise Jesus, my Mexican neighbor.

    Sincerely

    Jonesy (although i prefer to be known by my stage name, Equilaterally Opposed - my rap name.)

23. up yours Says:
    July 20th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    does wanting that train up my ass make the authors of the comments after mine gay?

24. Princess_Anarchy Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    It looks like Red Dwarf in train-form =/

25. cirabeau Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    Wtfh?!
    Even as an IRC OP, owner, and idler, never have I seen anything so f***ed up XD
    nvm, I just had a bash worthy comment about [censored].
    good day to you all XD

26. Dave Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    I was in Skagway last week and saw it as well. Really!

27. Zoid Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    YIKES!!! I TOO was in Skagway two weeks ago and I also saw this!!!!!

28. paresh Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 am

    cool, thanks for sharing.

29. miriam Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 7:33 am

    Well, I was in Skagway in 1898 and helped building that thing and I’m glad to see it still up an running. I wonder if the “computers” and “shoops” of the new generation will still live on in 110 years.

    Most likely the young ones today will succumb to genial warts before they reach a mature age, mark my words.

30. Harry Barracuda Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Holy cow, what are the odds of some fag asshole boasting about his genital warts and seeing a snowplow at the same time. Perhaps he wants it up his asshole to scrape those suckers off!

31. Jordan Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 6:28 am

    # Bob Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    Holy crap that’s awesome. All they need to do know is switch out those plow-blades with chainsaws and you got yourself a vehicle no one gets in the way of.

    Call me crazy, but i don’t enjoy getting in the way of any trains WHAT-SO-EVER

32. AndyMC Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

    FAKE

33. tehfaerdargon Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 11:51 pm

    OBVIOUSLY PHOTOSHOPPED

    ALSO I AM NATIVE TO SKAGWAY, I KNOW THE LOCALS, WE DON’T EVEN HAVE RAILROADS ANYMORE!!

34. really Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    I was just in Mexico and saw one just like this, but it was for intense sunlight.

35. Boob Biter Says:
    September 5th, 2008 at 8:10 am

    Holy cr@p I was in Skagway yesterday, drank some carcinogenic beverage and got genital warts, while attending the computer conference I stumbled upon this site with this exact picture in it. Only to stumble upon it again TODAY. SOME FREAKY SHIT

36. donalgraeme Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    someone should tell Mark Leyner about this thread. he’s being channeled. [Check his novel
    _my cousin my gastroenterologist_] Fucking most amusing
    commentary I have stumbled across in a long while.

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38. jesuschrist Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    MOTHER FUCKER.

    I was in skagway, getting out of the way of some skags, and i got a fucking tattoo of a THAT train on my ass becuase i saw it and knew what had to be done, plowed some hoes, invited a few guys i know from the computer convention [three of which had genital herpes AND gentail warts] over to run train on those hoes, got cancer from some fucking weird ass drink some dude i don’t know brought over, won a ticket to mexico [ i dont know how, fucking what?], drank some pepsi with some fat-ass who like disney, took THIS FUCKING PICTURE, ATE MY FUCKING CAMERA, and shit out a laptop right there and stumbled upon this FUCKING PAGE.

    HOLY SHIT.

39. Gringo Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    Hey man, which way to Jacooya’s (Dracula, just in my native [Czechoslovakian] jargon) lair?!

    And also, who stole my fucking tits? I’ve been dancing all fuckin day, and somebody just informed me they saw my tits stuck in the blades a murderous snow plow train.

    I’ma fuck that train with my everexpanding mangina penis. And I will remain STD free.

    But then die, because of penis cancer.

    Penis cancer.

    I should see a urologist.

40. Ted Mosby Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 2:48 am

    Who cares about any of this?

    Don’t you wanna know how i met your mother? She lived in Skagway at one point so i guess this is remotely relevent.

    I never had any form of cancer, esspecially penis cancer [ 20 bucks says thats a made up name for Genital warts which my pal Barney must have by now, that man-whore]. I think I’m awesome, but somehow on a daily basis, I prove this to be false to most women.

    Anyhow, any ladies out there should know that Jeff Benevedes is tool, and you should never date/ do anything regretable with him or any member of his family, because you’re basically just asking to be shit on.

    word to your mother, and Jeff if you read this go fuck yourself i hope you get hurt,

    Ted Mosby

41. Jeff Benevedes Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    I don’t know who fucking posted that, my boy just told me he saw that and I’m striaght pissed.
    Who the hell is Ted Mosby?
    If anything he is the tool.

    I hope Ted fucking dies. I’m not a tool and get laid everyday. So fuck you Ted. I hope you got SHOT.

    JB

42. jesuschrist Says:
    January 7th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    So no one is going to respond to that fact that Jesus himself is finally communicating with people again?
    Really? I mean, I’m BACK! I am in a human state, and I gotta say, no one has really caught on yet. You people need to believe. I’m here, try to contact me.

    Jesus

43. BoлкBepнyлcя Says:
    April 10th, 2009 at 12:57 am

    Вот что-то подобное у меня уже почти год из головы не выходит!

44. Семен Says:
    May 31st, 2009 at 7:56 am

    Занятная заметка. Добавил Ваш сайт в закладки. Не в каждом блоге сейчас встретишь столько ценных и полезных мыслей, которые можно применить на деле. Но понадобится еще время, чтобы осмыслить информацию. Даже сейчас, когда после прочтения текста Вашего поста, в тот момент, когда пишу комментарий, я думаю, о тех вещах, смысл которых мне теперь совсем по другому видится. Эх, что за день сегодня – полезный день.

45. Bилям Says:
    June 12th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    Ну вы подеритесь еще, нашли о чем поспорить :)

46. Денис Милюков Says:
    June 26th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    Интересно. Думаю многие будут не согласны..

47. smow Says:
    September 25th, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    tehfaerdargon …. you’re not a local. This train is alive and kicking is Skagway, Alaska you dumbazz.

48. Wilhelm Reich Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 11:19 pm

    This is the Whitepass and Yukon route rail snowplow based in Skagway Alaska

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