Rotary snowplow
![A rotary snowplow from the Oregon Short Line on display at the Mid Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, WI.](/Images/godic/202502/08/Rotary_snowplow_OSL_762_200408082229.jpg")
![A rotary snowplow at work in New Ulm, Minnesota.](/Images/godic/202502/08/Rotary_steam_shovel_at_work2229.jpg")
![Operational rotary snowplow Xrotd 9213 of Rhaetian Railway](/Images/godic/202502/08/RhB_Xrotd_9213_am_Lago_Bianco_42229.jpg")
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A rotary snowplow is a piece of railroad snowfighting equipment with a large circular set of blades on its front end that rotate to cut through the snow on the track ahead of it. The precursor to the rotary snowplow was the wedge snowplow.