Transport of rails with "Kirow" construction crane VTmaas 99 85 9219 101-4, owned and operated by Sersa Group Switzerland.

A former Cocekrill crane was exposed during an exhibition at the Chalindrey shops in 2007. This diesel crane can raise up to 85 tons, when it was built in 1945, crane was moved with an embedded st... (more)

Nestled in the Rocky Mountains along the St. Joe River, the scene of the Milwaukee Road at Avery Idaho during its last full year of operation. The substation has ceased generating electricity sin... (more)

Call for the wrecking crew. With a derailment reported on the High Line to McGill, Nevada Northern's wreck train heads north out of Ely, across the Steptoe Fill to deal with the aftermath. ... (more)

The new Stadler built cogwheel diesellocomotive HGm 2/2 # 702 of the Matterhorn-Gotthard Bahn (MGB) is pulling the track measuring car P # 10175 of the ARGE FahrwegDiagnose (Sersa, INovitas, Kistl... (more)

Algoma Central's diesel rail crane and support car found its way to North Fond Du Lac after Wisconsin Central's acquisition of the railroad. Quite an impressive machine, and a support gondola nice... (more)

Diesels on the subway tracks! The MTA New York City Transit Subway has a substantial fleet of diesel powered engines to move work trains around the system's 469 stations when the 3rd rail p... (more)

Illinois Railway Museum personnel are using their former C&WI crane to unload Union Electric Company #4 onto museum property. Tom Golden photo.

As is the case for most things from the steam era, running the Nevada Northern's 100 ton steam wrecking crane A is a labor intensive undertaking. After successfully re-railing #81's tender, the c... (more)

There was a problem outside the shop on the Nevada Northern Ry. Engine #81 is currently being rebuilt in the shop, and its tender derailed while it was being moved. Time to call in 100 ton steam p... (more)

USSX #1248, a vintage SW8, shoves on a cut of steel cars at US Steel's Granite City Works. #1188 has been sitting in that same spot, tied onto that same crane for at least a few years now. One has... (more)

Nevada Northern's 100 ton steam powered Wrecking Crane A is working to re-rail an errant ore car. Purchased in 1907 from Industrial Works of Bay City, Michigan, the crane has been restored to ope... (more)

KCC #93 steams out of Tunnel #1 in Robinson Canyon with 100 ton steam crane "A", its tender and associated equipment. From the 2020 Nevada Northern winter photo shoot.

Some interesting things to see in the BNSF engine servicing facility yard, including a Canadian Pacific unit, a Grinstein and a work crane.

We've just left Ely and are approaching Tunnel 1 up Robinson Canyon. Our work train lead by KCC #93 features NN's 100 ton steam wrecking crane "A", its tender and assorted other cars. From the s... (more)