Double steam part 2! A steam crane is hauled upgrade by JS8081 after completing it's work for the day delivering heavy mining equipment to the mining area at the bottom of the opencast coal mine.

Deep in the massive opencast pit at Sandaoling, a steam crane is hard at work delivering a piece of mine equipment to the mining face. The semi truck will carry this equipment to the mining area. ... (more)

Shunting diesel with yellow crane waits for work

What a mess. An eastbound Utah Ry. empty coal train derailed in Utah's Price River Canyon while passing a westbound Union Pacific loaded coal train and loaded cars from the westbound derailed into... (more)

Hustling across Steptoe Creek, locomotive #93 pulls the steam crane eastward during a chilly morning in north eastern Nevada.

The Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. members work with Kentucky Railway Museum's Mark Johnson, operating the crane, on removing the steam dome cap of 2716 in preparation of a evaluation of her curren... (more)

The crew of steam-powered Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane A pose with their charge in the yard at East Ely, Nevada, on February 5, 2006.

Steam crane demonstration during the Nevada Northern Winter Photo Spectacular 2014.

A derailment at Division Street in Davenport has forced the Rock Island to bring out the Big Hook from Silvis (RI 95022) to clean up the mess. This is on the mainline to Kansas City, several bloc... (more)

An NS GP59 hauls a crane back to the Moberly yard on the NS Kansas City District. I believe this crane was used to put a new switch in place at De Witt. That essentially ended my day of railfann... (more)

A Norfolk and Western American 5030-DE diesel electric locomotive crane sits on the spur track east of Norfolk Southern Crewe Yard.

After the scheduled train, a small group of railfans were treated to a pleasant opportunity. While CN 8223 hangs tight, the volunteers of the of the C&CV stage a run by of several pieces of equipm... (more)

A pair of 'old school' BNSF schemes feature BNSF 767 (Dash9) and BNSF 9754 (SD70MAC) holding station in the engine servicing yard, along with four pumpkins and an old OHIO work crane.

A steam crane puts more coal into the tenders of 2 SY locos at the servicing point, within the huge opencast pit at Jalainur in 2003.

A wreck crane sits on the siding at the entrance of hill yard hopefully not to be needed for a long time