Lost "preserved" Cranes

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1270

Thanks Rick, here is the updated listing for you ex-wrecker.

Industrial Brownhoist C/N 11726 250t SW 12-45
Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac #1
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR #X-300506
Rick Rowlands 1994 $3500
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR 1995 $3500
Scrapped

Rick Rowlands · **Posted:** Wed Dec 24, 2014 2:39 am

That is good to know that the boiler still exists.

What do you have on the B&O X-45 in Wooster and the ex CR Big Hook now down in New Castle, PA?

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1270

Rick,

Here is what I have on B&O X-45.

Industrial Brownhoist C/N 5164 200t W 04-29
Baltimore & Ohio #X-45 to #940502 04-08-82
CSXT 940502
Northwest Ohio RR Preservation, Inc. Findlay, OH as B&O #X-45
(reported stored at Orrville, OH 08-01-99)
Dennis Hendricks Findlay, OH for donation to NWORRP 2000
(Never here, offered for sale 01-2002 $8000)
donated to a museum in West Virginia

Anybody know what happend to this crane?

Is this the other wrecker you asked about?

Berea, OH-The Ohio Museum of Transportation & Industry
Industrial Brownhoist 250 tons Wrecker Steam (to diesel) 1946
New York Central
Penn Central 1968
Conrail 1976
Western Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Society New Castle, PA
TOMT&I 2010

mldeets · **Joined:** Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:06 am **Posts:** 411

Sometime before 1995 (when I joined) a crane that belonged to A.O. Smith was deaccessed and then later scrapped from Mid-Continent RHS in North Freedom, WI. These are the only facts I know though there is always plenty of hearsay. mld

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1270

The AO Smith crane was probibly one of a pair of Ohio 30 tonners they bought in 1930.

John Risley · **Joined:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:34 pm **Posts:** 966

Believe the MC AO Smith was a 30 ton, a very worn out but versatile 30 tonner. MC I think also scrapped out a lighter pulp wood steam crane from the old Consolidated Papers in Wi Rapids. I couldn't find it on the list of equipment at MC. Have not been down to the end to see what exists down there for some time. Helped replace a flue on the AO Smith with Dave Wantz officiating the repair and then worked with the state boiler inspector doing the hydro and inspection many moons ago. The AO Smith was pretty worn from what I remember, but a good operator could still do a honest days work with it. I admire a good operator on these old cranes. Poetry in motion when done right. Regards, John.

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1270

Two more preserved cranes scrapped.

Winnipeg-Vintage Locomotive Society (Prairie Dog Central)
American C/N J3213 25 tons Diesel 11-53
Great Northern RR #X-1852
Burlington Northern RR St. Paul, MN
Industrial Metals Winnipeg, MAN
VLS 12-11
Scrapped 07-15
American 30 tons Diesel
Canadian National
Industrial Metals Winnipeg, MAN
VLS 12-11
Scrapped 07-15

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1270

About a month ago a contact checked around Wooster, OH to see if he could find the Baltimore & Ohio #X-45 steam wrecker. He found no trace of it. Anybody know what happened to it?