A crane loads the 610's tender with coal while the engine is serviced on a mild December afternoon. The 610 is all decked out with Christmas lights for a series of North Pole Limited trips on TVRM... (more)

For many years this Cowans Sheldon 10 ton steam crane worked at South African Railways' Koedoespoort workshops. Today the workshops belong to Transnet Rail Engineering and the crane is a museum pi... (more)

A crane uses an electromagnet to pick up iron scrap near Robson, WV on the ex-VGN.

The bedraggled wreck-master looks on from a safe distance as 1907 steam crane "A" rerails an ore car at the north end of the East Ely Yard. This remarkable piece of equipment is a joy to behold,... (more)

Kirow crane (known as Kumbokarno Crane) evacuated a bus wreckage. The bus hit by Prambanan Express train from Solo to Yogyakarta at about 10:00 Am. Unfortunately 15 people killed at this acciden... (more)

A former NS MoW piece of equipment no longer cleans up derailments, but instead spends its days at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum with other unique pieces of equipment.

The work train's crane pulls a length of new rail off a flat using an electro magnet.

Can you find what's out of place? There is something in this photo giving away the fact that it's not a half century earlier. Regardless, this few looks down from the stairs that lead to the ove... (more)

Nevada Northern Steam crane unit 'A' re-rails a hopper car in the Ely Freight yard.

The quarters are cramped and the hazards abound as we watch the crew of Nevada Northern's Steam Wrecking Crane A go about the business of clearing a derailment. In front of them, there is rotati... (more)

Nevada Northern's wreck train heads south through Hiline Junction enroute back to Ely under a threatening sky. This 170mm tele-smash depicts what is clearly NN's most interesting trainset. In t... (more)

When a derailed hopper has the yard tied up in knots, who ya gonna call? Ya call out "The Big Hook", that's who. In this scene, Nevada Northern's Steam Wrecking Crane A makes short work ... (more)

An ex-Norfolk and Western MOW crane spends the night on a siding in Kinney Yard in Lynchburg, Va.

This aging MoW crane heads back to its storage track in Edmonds. See it in action here.