"Crocodile" Ce 6/8 II # 14270 from Erstfeld made a short fly today with the help of two large railway cranes back to the network. The 126 ton legend from the electrification of the Gotthard line i... (more)

A BNSF locomotive crane has a nice little train in tow as it heads back to the barn after a day of work in eastern Superior. Not something you see everyday.

A Utah Railway coal empty meets a Southern Pacific Burro Crane working near Castle Gate in Price Canyon. The very next day, this trackage would become part of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Like using a shotgun to kill a mosquito. This former DM&IR 250-ton-capacity wrecking crane was bought when the railroad purchased their massive 2-8-8-4 Yellowstones in the early 1940s. It was reti... (more)

A well maintained Bucyrus-Erie derrick crane awaits a call to duty at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City.

The Barstow derrick and a contractor's truck crane move ice reefer NRC 19693 to a position where it can be re-trucked. The reefer was part of a multi-car derailment in the Needles Yard, July 21, 1... (more)

The Gottwald crane lift up the driving cab of AHK4212. Alsthom-Heschel-Krupp No.4212 Locomotive travelling from Pakchong to Hinlap derailed Pakchong district near Klang Dong Station 23/05/2012, ... (more)

Tracks, the crane 'Kirow' and the localtrain line S6 from Luzern to Langnau in the station Escholzmatt

Sitting just outside of Keenan Yard, CN503-98, nah! it is still in maroon and gold so this American Crane is DMIR X-19.

CN 4515 is being lifted free of two other locos that derailed at Lake Avenue in Stoney Creek, ON. Two cranes were utilized to lift the locomotives out of the gulley, one of them being a steam pow... (more)

Call for the wrecking crew. A brief, but intense snow squall is just clearing the canyon to the east as Nevada Northern's wrecking crew races to deal with a derailment in the Mines District... (more)

BR standard Class 5 no 73129, fitted with Caprotti valve gear, sets off from Swanwick Junction station with a breakdown train, consisting of guards van, crane and brake LMS brake coach on a photo ... (more)

In China, the most favoured method of coaling locomotives was by steam crane. Usually playing photographic 'second fiddle' to the mighty QJs. Here crane No.5187 is given top billing over a QJ comi... (more)

A UP Maintenance of Way Ohio Crane meets a Global 3, IL to Long Beach, CA stack train tucked away in the west house track at Devil's Slide.

NS American Crane LC-47301, and CR Flat car 716351 await their next assignment at CP Mifflin on the old PRR Middle Division. The CR Flat car is a fairly rare PRR relic, and the Keystone can b... (more)