International Breaking News cameraman Geoff Mackley filmed this spectacular footage of a Kiwirail train snow ploughing in Arthur's Pass New Zealand. The YouTube clip has been viewed over 850,000 times and viewed worldwide via CNN and other major news agencies. Otira locomotion engineer DB Wilson says "there is no snow ploughing 101, we have to learn in the fly".
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