This crane will be used to service defective well cars.
Notice the spare wheelset on the hanger. It can pick up a fully
loaded stack car and replace a wheelset. It's been nicknamed the "Gizmo". |
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Pictured in front of the massive tire of the "Gizmo" (L to R) is Rich Bower, BNSF
Special Agent Charles Turner, Jim Ammons,
Mike Fleming, and Frank Green. Kenny Young, the photographer, is NOT pictured. |
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This picture shows the multiple steel wheels of the bogies on the feeder crane. Note the double flange on the wheel. | ||||||||
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View of both bogies. Note each wheel has it's own motor. Also note the very large
push rod(?). Upon contacting the bumper at the end of track would depress the plunger and shut power off. A very large kill switch
indeed!
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A close view of the six wheel bogie and plunger. |
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A side view of the bogie. Note the neat wire management! |
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Looking up at the business end of the crane. What a view from the control booth
seen in glass. |
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Shot of the four wheel bogie. Notice the warning siren in grey. |
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View of the big wheel for the giant extension cord. Red cable is the power cord. |
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Shot of both feeder and loading cranes. |
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Front (or back) view of feeder crane. |
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A view from the north end yard lead. |
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View of the ladder tracks. |
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Looking north. Perkins Road overpass (foreground) and Lamar (Hwy 78). New SB
signal bridge. Note cut in shoulder to accommodate
maintance vehicles. |
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Near dark view with lights on cranes. supplies by both Kenny Young and Frank Greene. |
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Computerized entrance into the BNSF Memphis Intermodal Facility.
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