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This little GE 25Ton is still going strong providing private switching at the Columbia Buisness Center (Vancouver, WA), even after celebrating it's 67th birthday (04/42)! It just goes to show 'BIG things do come in small packages.'
1988 KERSHAW CN 130861, 130 ton crane based out of Winnipeg, MB - one of two such cranes on the system (as of 2005 CN had 14 hi-rail cranes ranging from 60 to 150 tons)
I assume the Sask. plates are for tax purposes LOL.
I caught this monster machine at the sight of a minor derailment in...
Kennecott Mining Corporation 85 Ton Electric donated to Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad. Built by GE in 1928 and donated to BSVR in 1985, info from http://utahrails.net/index.php
1976 CN 50474, 40 ton OHIO crane pushed a platform, also pulling another one. Notice a MOW operator on the front. I got to observe this thing lay fresh tracks from the car it pulled, then travel the mainline to rest at the MOW depot. Quite an impresive piece of machinery.
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