Chris and Rob explore a 40's vintage 250 Ton American Wrecker Z-250 Railroad Crane.
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@AtkinsonRailroad11 жыл бұрын
The 250 ton railroad wrecker in this video is Industrial Brownhoist No. 12369 built in 1957. It is the former Missouri Kansas Texas #X-255, Chesapeake & Ohio #WC-32 to #940006, Cooperstown & Marne Ry #940006. Great Video!
@tomt95433 жыл бұрын
He said “programming” the controls! Ha! I ran a 250 ton Brownhoist exactly like this for Southern Railway/Norfolk Southern in the 80’s. These things were a workout to operate - no joysticks in those days - and you always hoped that the chain you leaned against while operating it didn’t break! Looong way down! There was always a lot of pressure on the “Derrick engineer” due to the difficulty of operating these things added with the yelling and screaming of the Railroad bosses to hurry up and clear the wrecked equipment! “We gotta run trains!”, only they used much more colorful language! These things were beasts, everything built ultra heavy, but contractors with sideboom pipelayer bulldozers rendered them useless by the early 90’s!
@MrSpinteractive14 жыл бұрын
I love the industrial brutality of this machine. It is primordial and stark. A cold Titan in its twilight - a mechanical Kraken.
@PowerTrain6114 жыл бұрын
Big Bessie seems like a fitting name for this thing. How awesome!
@williefleete13 жыл бұрын
19:18 lol "your slipping gears that are 4 inches thick" that thing is all kinds of epic.
@thetrainshop11 жыл бұрын
at the North Metro Model Railroad Club, we have one like this in HO scale that is fully operational and it will life a Proto2000 off the track and re align it.
@ericthomas38215 жыл бұрын
It's my understanding that the green color of the idler flat car came from a 50/50 mixture of the C&O colors Federal Yellow and Enchantment Blue. The C&O painted a lot of M.o.W. equipment this green color with the yellow used on grab irons and such.
@philippeleblanc72937 ай бұрын
Wonderful, thank you!
@ChaoticGoodChris7 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching! :) I'm sincerely glad you enjoyed it!
@lennyos11 жыл бұрын
as stiff as that crane is, it isn't nearly as bad as the one I used to work with. I used to work for Delaware Lackawanna in Scranton, PA and boy did that thing fight us. It's an old AMERICAN crane they got off of CP. It's biggest problem was that the clutch on the swing never wanted to fully engage. I miss it though. Lots of fun memories there...
@ChaoticGoodChris14 жыл бұрын
@Serostern Cory was there, running teh camera crew. The black haired chick is Mike.
@Crouse_Property_Maintenance10 жыл бұрын
we have one of those in 200 ton at the L&WV. we call it Orton.
@ChaoticGoodChris14 жыл бұрын
@gvi341984 A pair of JVC HM100u cameras, a Contour 1080p camera on a custom mount (a modified Gorillapod), and a pair of Audio Technical professional series wireless microphones.
@MrSpinteractive14 жыл бұрын
I love this machine!
@Bluetorchproductions14 жыл бұрын
I recommend Freyja (pronounced Frey-ya) for a name of that fine piece of craftsmanship, Freyja is a Norse name which means "Lady" And is associated with Beauty
@NetoriusNapster14 жыл бұрын
@1stfreestuff Big Bertha was the second largest gun used in the second world war (next to the Ghostly Paris Gun)
@maddennis5510 жыл бұрын
What you didn;t cover is what grade of diesel fuel it uses, low grade, bunker-c,.? It was smoking quite heavy at times.
@Searsnut1111 жыл бұрын
I am gonna submit "Ol' Iron Sides". A name from the very first baldwin built steam locomotive
@tomselbeck14 жыл бұрын
that thing is awsome!
@askthebuilder4 жыл бұрын
Call her Mary Gene
@AceMon200514 жыл бұрын
LOL "Your slipping gears that are four inches thick!?!?" As for the name of it I'm gonna go with "Big Becky"
@gvi34198414 жыл бұрын
@thegeekgroup Thank you so muc
@prestonmcknew23003 жыл бұрын
Would like you to have spent some time with the outriggers.
@AJayModder14 жыл бұрын
How about "Lady Georgina" from the short story "THE ADVENTURE OF THE CANTANKEROUS OLD LADY" couldn't be more fitting ;)
@Serostern14 жыл бұрын
And by the way, that thing's name is called Daisy. No question about it.
@motorhead676310 жыл бұрын
Excelent fun show...call it Marsha...lol
@Rodsur14 жыл бұрын
Titania is fitting for such a powerful woman ;D
@gvi34198414 жыл бұрын
What audio and video equipment was used?
@kasiathome11 жыл бұрын
Epic.
@standurround5896 жыл бұрын
Neat!
@starguard41228 жыл бұрын
So.. what did they name it?
@jughead19689 жыл бұрын
Big linda
@NetoriusNapster14 жыл бұрын
going to go with Yvonne as it sounds like the woman STUBON old gall
@btasler7 жыл бұрын
LuLu Belle
@Serostern14 жыл бұрын
Who is the black haired chick? And what happened to cory? Did you sell him to Satan? :O
@AndrewBarth14 жыл бұрын
@thegeekgroup lol
@maglinjosvinn14 жыл бұрын
@Serostern i'm mahhhhglahhhhvahn, and and my buddy mike is a black haired chick. apparently. our mutual friends are already starting lulz over it.