I am doing research on derricks that worked their way through Erwin, Tn.

The Clinchfield wrecker purchased mid 1940's CRR 1402 was involved in a runaway incident at Nora, Va circa 1991. It was sent to Waycross for repairs but CSX opted not to repair and eventually it was sold to a short line in Idaho and scrapped circa 2008.

SBD 771200 200 Ton Orton replaced the Clinchfield wrecker. Info I have found looks like it was purchased in 1971 and stationed at Jacksonville before making a brief stint at Erwin in 1992.

SBD 771200 would be replaced with a derrick from Corbin SBD 771256. I believe this was a former SAL wrecker that was from Wildwood. SBD 771256 would end up on the TN Southern and is now still in service at an engine shop in Indiana. So, a couple of questions:

Does anyone know the final disposition of SBD 771200?

Does anyone have any other information on either SBD 771200 or SBD 771256?

Thanks..............Scott J

Orton
65404 200t D Wrecker 1966 Louisville & Nashville RR #40022
Seaboard Coast Line RR #771200
Seaboard System #740023 12-26-82
CSX #970023 07-01-86
South Central Tennessee RR Authority
Tennessee Southern RR #970023
Vintage Locomotives, Inc. #970023 Pearland, TX
stored at Tennessee Central Ry Museum Nashville, TN
https://www.flickr.com/photos/seantheriot/17084370450

Bucyrus
4583 03-20-26 150t SW Seaboard Air Line Ry #71978
Seaboard Coast Line #771256

This is the one that went to Idaho:

Industrial Brownhoist
11593 250t SW 06-45 Clinchfield RR #1402 (converted to diesel 1957)
Seaboard System #751402 rblt ? 01-01-83
CSXT #984402 11-07-89
Idaho Northern & Pacific Ry #984402 06-04-92
Scrapped 2010
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1368116
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1368119

Maybe I posted the wrong number at Erwin. What do you show for a SBD 991200?

Is this the same as the SBD 771200?

Also I was showing SBD 771256 a 250 Ton Industrial Brownhoist?

Thanks.......Scott

Here are my notes on SBD Wreckers for June 30, 1983. My notes are what I have found/interpreted from information I have found on the internet. I did not take much interest
in the Erwin derrick when I was in that area, other than I was out there with them.

I speculated 77 series were ex Seaboard, 76 ex-ACL, 75 CRR, and 74 L&N. I have a list of L&N wreckers from 1967 and figured since they were 40000 number series that anything that SBD numbered 74 was ex-L&N.





CRANE SBD ASSIGNMENT TON NOTES
771200 Jacksonville 200 Orton Crane purchased circa 1971 SCL
771201 Lakeland 200 Orton Crane purchased circa 1971 SCL
771202 Atlanta 200 Orton Crane purchased circa 1971 SCL
771203 Tallahasse 200 Orton Crane purchased circa 1971 SCL
765250 Louisville 250 1946 ACL 65358 Rocky Mount, CSXT 985250 stored Waycross 1989, Bud Phillips Spruce Pine donated to Rocky Mount Railroad Museum
765251 Florence 250 1946 ACL 65369, wrecked Laurens September 1986
765252 Montgomery 250 1946 ACL 65370 1127A SW 12-45 (Industrial Brownhoist PDF)
771253 Waycross 250 Possibly SAL 71979 stationed Hamlet 1966
771254 Hialeah 250 Possibly SAL 71980 stationed Hialeah 1966
771255 Savannah 250 Possibly SAL 71981 stationed Savannah 1966
771256 Corbin 250 Possibly SAL 71982 stationed Wildwood 1966
771257 Hamlet 250 SAL 71983, at Hamlet 12-8-1988, retired 6-4-92, donated Gallion Oh Museum, not moved, scrapped 2004/2005 this from RYPN.ORG
740022 Birmingham 200 Ex LN Boyles (Should be an Orton Crane)
740023 Nashville 200 Ex LN Radnor, Orton Crane at Tennessee Central RR Museum Nashville TN
740024 Mobile 200 Ex LN Mobile (Should be an Orton Crane)
740025 Evansville 200 Ex LN Howell (Should be an Orton Crane)
740026 Decoursey 250 Ex LN Decoursey
740027 Ravenna 250 Ex LN Corbin
740028 Spare 160 Ex LN Strawberry
740030 Spare 160 Ex LN Montgomery
751402 Erwin 250 Clinchfield Wrecker CRR 1402

Orton
68404 200t D Wrecker 1971 Seaboard Coast Line #771200
Seaboard System #771200>991200 12-26-82
CSX #991200 07-01-86
Retired 1993

I seem to have two 200 ton Ortons as Seaboard #771200, one built in 1966 and one in 1971. Anybody able to clear this up?

Anybody have the retirement/scrapping dates for these wreckers?

771201 Is in Wellington Ohio L & WV LSRA doing nothing

What the hell is L & WV LSRA?

Lorain and West Virginia Railway.

Sorry about not being more specific. Lorain and West Virginia Railway, owned by the Lake Shore Railway Association. Located in Wellington Ohio. Even though what in the hell is it, is an appropriate question and another topic all together.

Thanks for clearing that up Jack. Here is what I have on that wrecker:

Wellington, OH-Lake Shore Ry Assn.
Orton C/N 68405 200 tons Wrecker Diesel 1971
Seaboard Coast Line #771201
Seaboard System #991201 12-26-82
CSXT #991201 07-01-86 (retired 1993)
Art Davis (D) Orrville, OH
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=3601122