There’s not much snow to be found in Michigan today, but there’s plenty in this photo from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress (LC-B2- 33-4). While many of the items in our national library are identified and dated, all we know about this one is that it’s from Michigan.
In the course of an ultimately fruitless search for information about the steam plow in the above photo, I found a neat page from the Wayne County Road Commission. The history page identifies Wayne County as “the Birthplace of Modern Road Building” and has a picture of what is purported to be the first snowplow.
I think that the plow in the picture may be like the one in this story about northern Michigan plow truck driver Harry Anderson.
Michigan in Pictures 
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since i joined the ranks of snow plow drivers i see and hear about interesting and crazy ways people move snow. it’s still impressive to see a pic like that and how much snow a train can move. incredible
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