We’ve become accustomed to the enormous snow plows and expect our roads to be clear to drive no matter how much snow falls, and in Central New York it tends to be a lot. Today, we decided to take a look back at the history of snow removal in our area through photographs of snow storms and the evolution of how Onondaga County made travel easier for its citizens.
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- 1892 Horse Plow on Townsend Street
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- Turn of the Century Horse plow dumping snow into the Erie Canal
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- 1913 Snow Plow for Trains – Double End Snow Plow Built in Marcellus
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- 1925 Auto-Snow Plow
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- 1932 Plow and Car Stuck in the snow along Orville-Jamesville Rd
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- 1940 Truck Snow Blower in Pompey
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- 1945 Plow and Men Shoveling a Path
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- 1945 Men Clearing Train Tracks, looking north from Oran Station – 2 tracks buried in 10 ft snow
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- 1971 Truck Snow Blower (Photo Credit Pam Priest)
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- 1971 Truck (Photo Credit Pam Priest)
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- Modern Syracuse City Snow Plow
