Mystery photo

by Alison Weidemann

Can you identify the object in the photo above? Send your best guess by February 15, 2007 to editor@go-explore-trans.com.

After the deadline, we'll randomly choose a winner from the correct entries. The winner will receive a Go! t-shirt.

Good luck!

And the answer is

A railroad snow plow.

Congratulations to Ben Hucker of Ames, Iowa, who submitted the only correct answer.

He wrote, “I believe the mystery picture is the front of a railroad rotary snow plow.  Similar to a snow blower, the blade in the picture rotates, pulling snow into the machine.  There is then a secondary blower (which spins much faster) that propels the snow through the air, well clear of the railroad tracks.”