I Hope This is in the Back Lot of Some Museum

railfan44 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:09 pm

Found this picture on the Net this morning and my first thought was I hope somebody saved this gem.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=467478

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:16 pm

Doesn't look that exciting to me.

etalcos · **Posted:** Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:17 pm

Isn't that one at TVRM now? Shooting from the hip, but I want to say that theirs was original NS. Tim, Steve???

ETA

SR6900 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:42 pm

I was looking into this a while back (I think it was a time when Tim posted a document with derrick info in it somewhere?). Ours has the boom from this derrick (looks like the same paint from this photo). I can't remember the original Southern D-(65-69) number. Tim may have it on mind. I think I had even nailed it down to a certain year that the boom replacement was done (was after NS acquisition).

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

SR6900 wrote:

I was looking into this a while back (I think it was a time when Tim posted a document with derrick info in it somewhere?). Ours has the boom from this derrick (looks like the same paint from this photo). I can't remember the original Southern D-(65-69) number. Tim may have it on mind. I think I had even nailed it down to a certain year that the boom replacement was done (was after NS acquisition).

Wait! They saved the boom but not the derrick? That's kind of like saving the tender from a steam locomotive, but not the locomotive itself. Yes, the tender could be used elsewhere, but the pit of your stomach still feels bad.

Les

Bobharbison · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:42 pm **Posts:** 3011

Les, note this part:

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Ours has the boom from this derrick ... I think I had even nailed it down to a certain year that the boom replacement was done (was after NS acquisition).

Sounds to me like the boom was put on a different derrick during its revenue service career, and they have that derrick.

Steve Freer · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:24 pm **Posts:** 380

The TVRM derrick in a photo taken a number of years ago....

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

Were these standard 120 tonners {probably less} converted? The deck and boom look natural. So were these converted to diesel with new sheet metal or is the whole mechanical system changed over to hydraulic? To my untrained eye and knowledge less perspective it looks like a conversion rather than something that would of been retrofitted with another cranes boom. Not sure how to word this one? Handy rig for sure.

Regards, John.

SR6900 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:00 pm

It's a conversion. Diesel engine (Detroit IIRC) sits in rear where boiler was and actuation is done with pneumatic controls at the operators area. The boom was swapped in Southern service. Other than that it's a typical 1919 Bucyrus 150-ton model.