Railroad wreck cranes

PLATFORMCAR · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:22 pm **Posts:** 429

IC crane on display McComb Mississippi

Dean Levin

Mount Royal · **Posted:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:34 pm

Danbury Railroad Museum has the "Wellington", GCT-1 Wrecker/Double-Ended Crane

ex-Metro-North
ex-Penn Central
nee GCT-1

arrived Danbury 7/14/98
leased from Metro North
built: 1914 by Industrial Crane Works of Bay City, Michigan as Crane #2281,
length: 90 feet long
capacity: 100 tons.

PaulWWoodring · **Posted:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:48 pm

Since nobody else here mentioned it, just for the record, Art Davis died within the past year or so. The ultimate disposition of his equipment is unsettled, so keep your ears to the rumor mill.

DBH · **Posted:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:46 pm

We have C&IM steam wrecker X-32 Bucyrus built at MRM. Also a Brownhoist locomotive crane from Bates & Rogers construction in Chicago. We have a home built IC steam pile driver / crane X-238 from the IC.

DBH

Jason Midyette · **Posted:** Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:25 am

Sorry to hear that Art Davis died. He was a neat guy and i enjoyed the time i got to spend with him.

jason Midyette

bedt14 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:38 pm

Gentlemen:

GCT #001 had (step) sister:

http://www.trainweb.org/milepost51/railroad.html#16000

GCT 001 was also related to CUT X99, another double ender.

Sincerely,

Phil

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:44 pm

Mark Jordan wrote:

About 1989 I was a member of Bluegrass RR Museum in Versailles, KY. We purchased Porter #717 0-6-0T from Art Davis. (This loco was subsequently sold to an individual in California). We used one of the steam cranes to pick the loco, and the green RSD-1 to switch the Conrail flat car under it to load for transport. I have video of the operation. I'm wondering if we are the most recent crew to use a steam RR derrick to pick and load a steam locomotive?? The equipment is painted silver because Art got a good deal on excess paint from NS signal dept. He hires a local guy with a spray gun.

I haven't been to the Orrville site in over 20 years, so don't know the current status.

Would you like to put the video on Youtube?