Maintenance vehicle delivered to Philadelphia
https://www.metro-report.com/news/news-by-region/americas/single-view/view/maintenance-vehicle-delivered-to-philadelphia.html
Snow is one of the important factors that make railway operations more difficult. As the article says, it costs railway companies a lot to maintain rail lines in snowy area like buying snowplows. So, that's why JR Hokkaido, Japan's railway company headquartered in areas with huge snowfall is puzzled with maintaining rural railways.
Considering its situation, it would be better to allow those companies to get financial aid from public sectors.
