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Snow is both a pleasure and a chore, and two trains can attest to winter’s eternal contradiction.
Visitors to Exporail in St-Constant on Montreal’s South Shore can now hop aboard a rotary snowplow and a commuter car that once ferried skiers to the Laurentians. Both are part of the museum’s exhibit Iron and Ice: Snow Trains.
Looming large, the 15-foot-high rotary snowplow is black like the coal that once fuelled it, but its windows, doors and blades are a gleaming fire-truck red.
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