The crane car is great. Something similar in n scale. Thought it could be cool mounting top crane half on a MTL truck w/coupler. No passing under low bridges. lol
The new REM light rail trains in Montreal have problems with their switches in winter. Maybe they need one of these... They could use switch heaters too. The REM also has a lot of assorted teething problems like wheels that go out of round - oval even (yes, oval) - from repeated braking, and many, many unexpected shutdowns... And being waaaaaayyyy over budget. Up to $9.4 billion now. It's like they hired the guy from the Simpsons that built the Springfield Monorail...
A string of Canadian Pacific MOW equipment parked at Ste-Thérèse, QC, October 1982: The converted boxcar at right, 412774, shows vestiges of its former life under the most recent paint. My Dad's photo.
On February 10, 2004, the Union Pacific and BNSF deactivated Tower 17, the last manned interlocking tower governing two rail lines in Texas. Its duties were transferred to the dispatch center in Spring, Texas. The tower was donated to the Rosenberg Railroad Museum and we set about moving it to the museum site a quarter mile east adjacent to the BNSF tracks. Cherry Moving Company was contracted to move the structure. The lower story was disassembled lowering the upper floor onto some steel beams supported by a truck bogey in order to tow it to the new location where it was reassembled. As the upper floor was about to be moved, the BNSF was doing track work along their line and this equipment was moving over the diamond.
Would have been cool to have been able to get a better picture of this contraption - Lecco Italy - March 3, 2025
Can't remember where I saw it, but someone has a 3D printed version of the porta-potty out. HO and N scales
There was a crane and a flat car for the boom to rest on at the other end. Bonsack, VA, July 23, 2007.
Maybe a dumb question but I've been looking at pics trying to learn a little and have never seen a MOW yard light as shown below. I'm going to get them regardless but are these prototypical and used in real MOW yards?
