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It looks to me like the front wedge below the coupler is raised for increased clearance above the rails – it would need to be lowered when snow plowing. Had not noticed this part being movable on a railway snow plow before.
That part of these as well as CP’s homebuilt plows were lowered and raised at switches, crossings, bridges etc. Packed snow between the rails used to increase drag on the train. Prior to 1980, on CP’s Galt Sub,near Campbellville westbound trains were almost always on the north track and eastbounds on the south. Westbounds didn’t go fast enough to blow snow between the rails out so it would accumulate & once snow packed between the rails, stalling was a problem. They would run a plow to clean “the flange’ out .