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Rotary snowplow

Imagine you are playing in the snow and you want to make a big hole in it. You might use a shovel, right? Well, a rotary snowplow is like a giant, super-powered shovel that can clear a lot of snow at once.

Picture a really big train, like you might see in the movies. It has a special kind of car attached to the front of it that looks like a big metal cylinder with sharp blades on the end that spin around really fast.

When the train runs into a big mound of snow, the rotary snowplow starts spinning its blades and sucking up all the snow inside. The blades are so powerful that they can throw the snow out of the way, like when you use a fan to blow air.

This helps the train keep moving forward on the train tracks, even when there is a lot of snow in its path. It's like the train has a superpower that lets it defeat the snow!

So, a rotary snowplow is basically a huge, spinning snow-shovel that helps trains move through lots of snow. It's really cool to see it in action!
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