BC Rail Wrecking Crane 75 ton Before & After rebuild

[bccat]

I was lead hand on this rebuild, it was used for 3 months then mothballed,it now sits at a RR museum, the engine rebuild was $25,000 in 1985

 

[bccat]

Some more

 

[bccat]

Some more

 

[bccat]

Cat D337F

 

[skyking1]

sweet! that's a stout looking rig.

 

[DB2]

Cool. Why did she get mothballed ?

 

[mowingman]

Cool. Why did she get mothballed ?

Sideboom dozers, hydraulic cranes, and outside contractors took over the derailment business, starting back in the late 60's. By the 80's, hardly any railroads did their own wreck cleanups. Companies like Hulcher, R.J. Corman, Winters Rigging, and Cranemasters, do that work now.
Jeff

 

[bccat]

Sideboom dozers, hydraulic cranes, and outside contractors took over the derailment business, starting back in the late 60's. By the 80's, hardly any railroads did their own wreck cleanups. Companies like Hulcher, R.J. Corman, Winters Rigging, and Cranemasters, do that work now.
Jeff

That is for sure. Another thing is the older operator retired. The new operator(if you call him a operator, union man was upset they gave him the older crane and you had to stand to operate, he was so upset, he swung the house into a box car denting the side of the house. Nothing happened to him,real retard the union protected him, a little while later l went back on the tools and minded my own business

 

[skyking1]

Yeah that's a bunch of BS I've stood out in the rain running boom truck for years I'd be really happy to have a roof over my head!!
I bet it was warm in there too

 

[bccat]

Yeah that's a bunch of BS I've stood out in the rain running boom truck for years I'd be really happy to have a roof over my head!!
I bet it was warm in there too

Yes, it was warm, the Cat engine was quiet compared to the Jimmy. He was a loud mouth really useless.

 

[DB2]

The loudest ones are usually the most useless.

 

[skyking1]

Yes, it was warm, the Cat engine was quiet compared to the Jimmy. He was a loud mouth really useless.

I was deck engineer on a little portable 8" dredge with an 8v92, about 5' behind me in the house. Earplugs and shotgunners and it still got right into your bones. When the leverman left and I moved out to the end of the float out in the weather, I was OK with that

 

[JD955SC]

Southeastern railway museum in Atlanta has a crane too. I’ve always liked seeing the railway stuff.

 

[bccat]

The loudest ones are usually the most useless.

You hit the nail on the head, last I heard he was arrested for Drug Dealing