I dunno about you guys, but to me a beast like this "tunnel crane" cries out for an O scale version. Whaddayathink? Or has it been done?
A link to some pics and info: http://sbiii.com/bigcran1.html
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I think it's photoshopped.
Originally Posted by RickO:
I think it's photoshopped.
haha, Yep, it does have that look about it, doesn't it?
Here's a few more pics:
Interesting, its real.I stand corrected.
If it was made in conrail colors I would buy one.
Sign me up for a Pennsylvania version.
I can tell you where the beast is and how to photograph it.
The crane is about 20 minutes from my home in Carmel, NY.
It sits in the Danbury Railroad Museum. (CT, of course.)
It has been used fairly recently in Grand Central Terminal.
Scrappy
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Oh yeah, need one of those!
Note that only the booms pivot and not the cab. I saw that big guy last summer in Danbury. Pretty cool. It is a nice museum with a strong regional collection And it is accessible by train.
I tell you one thing... I would send that in for service on a tunnel on my layout and I don't think it would be coming back out!
Originally Posted by J Daddy:
I tell you one thing... I would send that in for service on a tunnel on my layout and I don't think it would be coming back out!
Yep, minimum radius would be a conundrum Ah reckon.
Maybe a 3-rail model would have an extra subframe or bolster to handle those double truck sets.
How about Lionel making this bad boy into a Vision Line version of the (already very cool) operating crane/boom-car?
I've got some extra MTH crane booms laying around and was trying to figure out a way to make one of these on a shorter frame for use on my 0-27 42" curves.
Great link! Check out the guy standing inside the cab of the locomotive while it's being lifted!
Originally Posted by Gilly@N&W:
Great link! Check out the guy standing inside the cab of the locomotive while it's being lifted!
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Not to hijack things, but that is one ancient locomotive, even a the time of the photo. A 4-2-0 with a haystack boiler?
Check the resemblance to the Pioneer in the Chicago History Museum, and that one was built in 1837: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_(locomotive)
Firewood,
Crane Cars are my favorite rolling stock, man I would have 2 of them on my Christmas layout for sure, one in Christmas colors most definitely!
PCRR/Dave
Originally Posted by coach joe:
I've got some extra MTH crane booms laying around and was trying to figure out a way to make one of these on a shorter frame for use on my 0-27 42" curves.
The old MR Dollar Car project book has the 4-truck Wabash heavy flat car with span bolsters for the trucks. Kind of like the Schnabel cars, but out of sight underneath the car body. The full-size car probably didn't have the span bolsters - but they would make a model more flexible for tighter curves.
Originally Posted by Pine Creek Railroad:
Firewood,
Crane Cars are my favorite rolling stock, man I would have 2 of them on my Christmas layout for sure, one in Christmas colors most definitely!
PCRR/Dave
For sure! Here's the interesting thing if any manufacturers are reading this; the cranes were gas-electric powered, had storage battery capacity, and also had third-rail shoes fitted.
Self-propelled, no less! Now there's a project........
Firewood,
Oh yea that would be some serious engineering and I would love it! I could just hear the crew chatter on that big Crane Car! What a serious piece of rolling stock that would make.
PCRR/Dave
Picture taken in 2010 at Danbury Railroad Museum.
Dennis
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Here's a tempting taste of a model, albeit in G 1/29. Beautifully done by David Russell.
http://www.thegalline.com/galhome.html
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Wow, that GAL piece is a thing of beauty!
The gallery for it is definitely worth a visit.
