NYC Crane Color

BnOTolSub · **Joined:** Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:41 am **Posts:** 161

Does anyone know what color New York Central's locomotive cranes were painted when new? Trying to determine if yellow or black. Not much help available from NYCRRHS. Thanks for any info you may have!

kevin kohls · **Joined:** Tue May 03, 2005 8:35 pm **Posts:** 298

Black

Kevin K

Catalpa · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:07 pm

I agree with Kevin. All the ones I saw, were black -- steam or diesel. I was going through some old slide boxes last evening and found some slides of a wreck NYC crane cleaning up a derailment in or near Kalamazoo about 1967 or 1968. I will try to get some scanned and posted over the weekend. Basically a black crane but I had forgotten some safety stripes painted on the back of the the cab.

G.F.Payne
B'more

BnOTolSub · **Joined:** Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:41 am **Posts:** 161

Thank you Kevin and George!

EJ Berry · **Posted:** Wed Aug 19, 2020 4:26 pm

Are you talking about a relief (wreck) crane or a MOW crane such as a Burro?

Phil Mulligan

BnOTolSub · **Joined:** Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:41 am **Posts:** 161

To be more specific, an American 25-ton locomotive crane.

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

Anyone have a NYC crane roster?

EJ Berry · **Posted:** Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:39 pm

Depending on the era and use it would have been most likely black for a crane although the tool and camp cars were usually some other color. NYC merged into PC in 1968 so it missed the era of high-visibility non-Burro cranes.

Phil Mulligan