A Conrail work train passes through Hillside. Note the Conrail lettering on the American crane. Not much equipment remaining with Conrail reporting marks.

Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane A lifts a flatcar at Lavon siding on the Adverse Branch north of East Ely, Nevada, on February 3, 2007. The crew is performing a “derailment cleanup” with the st... (more)

NS 8802, CN 2242 and UP 4294 head East on a loaded Grain train as they pass a Canadian National crane entering the Waterloo yard.

Ohio crane ATSF 199463 waits in the Denver BNSF engine yard among a variety of BNSF, UP and CP power.

Wentworth Breakdown team and it's crane came to load old coach bogies into DZ wagons for scrap, after half the old coach yard had been made part of the Moses Mabhida soccer stadium grounds for the... (more)

E 3/3 # 10 of the DVZO with a beautiful hand braked freight like in the 1900' from Bäretswil to Bauma near Neuthal. The locomotive was built as E 3/3 # 8476 for the SBB in 1907 by SLM Winterthur.... (more)

CSX Q386 lead by CSX 8662 comes into V.O. passing the rail crane "American" on the controlled siding.

Former CN GE 44-ton #4 with an ex-Altasteel crane and Ex-AC/VIA/CN FP9 6514. After being retired by CN, #4 worked at the former Stelco plant in Camrose until 2009. It was donated to the museum in ... (more)

Crane Train waiting on Jatinegara Locoshed for resque some derailment at Bogor

Calling out The Hook. The beefy Nevada Northern Consolidation #93 withdraws the line's Steam Wrecking Crane A and its companion outfit/tool car from their home in the Machine Shop at the so... (more)

Where do you find parts for a 100 year-old steam engine? The answer is....you usually don't FIND them, more often then not, you have to MAKE them. At the Nevada Northern Railway Museum, th... (more)

Got a hopper in the dirt? That's no problem if you've also got a big hook. And the Nevada Northern Railway Museum does have a big one....a 100-tonner, as a matter of fact. This unit was b... (more)

When BN severed its former GN ore dock complex from rail access in the mid-1980s it left a self propelled American crane on top of Dock 2 in order to facilitate the repair of dock chutes that line... (more)

Rio Grande's Roper and Helper steam derricks were called to clean up a 13 car derailment at West Gilluly on March 28, 1976. GP9s 5922 and 5932 handled the Roper wrecker with crane 027 while GP40-2... (more)

An Azcon self-propelled crane moves a loaded gondola into position to be picked up. The crane's "junk yard dog" condition looks fitting considering the environment it works in.