Inside the Santa Fe, 200 ton wrecking crane Winslow, Arizona
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Here is a rare look inside a Santa Fe, 200 ton, wrecking train. This crane looks very similar to some of the HO scale model trains I have seen. This is a permeant display open to the public in Winslow, Arizona.
Someone needs to try and start that Detroit Diesel. Oil, water, fuel, and batteries for the starter.
Brings back memories, when we use our Derrick, in SP Englewood yrd Houston tx. Many many years ago. My back still aches when I see that Derrick. 😊😊😊😊
standin' on a corner in Winslow Arizona.....
Yes there is a statue there. Did not see a flat bed Ford though.
Very interesting video and sad to see it's let to decay.
How do you start building something like that? Amazing. Thanks Tom
Yes considering that crane can pick up a entire SD70 off the ground is pretty amazing. Must have a very strong suspension system.
I noticed the compressor and storage tanks , are those for the air brakes as this is self propelled , or is it an air powered crane ?
I saw gears under one truck. It could move by compressed air. Tanks are way too big for air brakes.
@@travelingtom923 upon reflection , this probably was a coal fired , steam powered crane when it was built . Switching out the firebox and boiler for a diesel engine and air compressor was a no brainer conversion as no gearbox would need to be added .
Air controls
This is a conventional diesel-powered friction (mechanical) crane with air controls. Beautiful machine! Greetings from Russia!
That is really cool about ATSF 200T crane! I never see inside what you show the video! I have the ho scale train, Athearn kit is same kind of 95% model like this video!
Decades and decades of wonderful history weighs on top that beautiful crane in the colors of the Santa Fe, as I am glad to see it so well preserved as if it were ready to go out to shoot again. Very good video Tom, like 36. Greetings from Argentina to the USA and have a very good Tuesday friend !!!!!!!
Thank you.
Wow, a Detroit in that thing! Love it!
Very cool. I think I have this exact model in HO scale.
It's gorgeous !!!
That’s a lot of iron! Too bad they don’t send it to Chalma and restore it!👍✌️😊🙏🏼🚂🚂🚂🚂
Maybe one day. I used to rebuild Detroit Diesel engines they are not that hard to repair.
Hi Tom. Great to see these huge material. Excellent Enterprising Endeavour 🎉🙏 Greetings from India 🤝👍
Thank you from India!
Do you remember the 250 ton Erie originally CB&Q we had up at the Balmer car shop in Seattle but only got scrapped because nobody wanted it, the BNSF was giving it away for free.
I do faintly remember a large wrecking crane at the Interbay yard. Was near a wheel shop if I remember right. They also had some ex CN, passenger cars, in primer red sitting near the Magnolia bridge. Good memory.
That's the same one, it was by the roundhouse for a little while but it was tied down at the car shop for most of the time, if I remember right I think it was scrapped in 2013 or 2014
I love the track tongs/clamps to grip the rails. I'm guessing they clamped to the rails for stability and used the yellow outriggers for more stability. Thank you for the inside shots. This is very cool sir.
I have never seen that before. Also there was large gears under the train. Looks to be self propelled.
@@travelingtom923 Those clamps were used in the case where a lift was being made and the Derrick was getting light on the rear. They helped if there was a heavy car behind the Derrick to give weight to the track. Otherwise, all the clamps would do is lift the track up out of the ballast! But even that could be helpful in certain situations. I spent much of my 41 year railroad career on the Derrick crew, and we had several instances over the years where the rear got light, lifted the rear truck off the rail, and when it came back down it missed the rail due to slight shifting. Then we got to rerail the Derrick as well as clear the wreck! The clamps would have prevented that, but management didn’t like them because of the way they disturbed the track structure. The majority of derricks were self propelled, but at least the Industrial Brownhoist hooks were such a pain to setup to move that it was almost never done. A locomotive and the wreck outfit was always with the Derrick, and it was far simpler to let the locomotive handle the moving. These beasts are such interesting machines, but I can tell you firsthand that it was incredibly hard, heavy, dirty and dangerous work! And when the mainline was blocked, they didn’t care how many hours you’d been on duty! You kept fighting it until the right of way was cleared, the track panels were laid and bolted together, and they could start pushing the backlog of trains that had been backing up on either side of the wreck. We’d get some rest then, but in a few hours the crew would be back at it picking up the cars we had set off to the side of mainline to lay new track, and putting them back on the rail. You’d play cat and mouse with the dispatcher, as they give us an hour or two to work, then we had to clear up to let them run trains. Then back at it again! We earned some massive paychecks on that crew, but the caterpillar sidewinders could handle things so much quicker, and if one of their people got injured it didn’t count against the railroads safety record.
Nice presentation Tom, I wonder how this compares to modern cranes?
That Detroit was sweet it looked like it had an 871 on top of it.
Were you able to find a build plate or nomenclatures on the car?
Keep posting them sweet videos.
I don't believe these type of cranes are used on the railroad anymore. Now days they use those mobile caterpillar crawlers. No I did not find any builders plates. I know they did make builders plates for the steam cranes but probably not for the diesels.
It is definitely a V8 two stroke Detroit diesel. You can't tell the size without the tag on the valve cover or taking it apart and measuring everything. But my guess is it is a 8V71.
Guess that was the coupler laying in the bed? - 7:40 , 0:30 How much do they weigh? About 300 lbs?
Looked like a coupler off a locomotive as it is pretty short. The knuckle weighs 78 pounds, so it is probably more like around 500 pounds.
@@travelingtom923 500 lbs. - Wow!
@@JungleYT I used to drive a magnet crane in a scrapyard. One day I was loading a gondola railcar, and one of those couplers rocked back and forth on the magnet as I was moving it through the air. It fell off the magnet and went right through the side of the railcar! I couldn't believe it was so tough and heavy that it would punch a hole in the side of a rail car. I pulled it out with the magnet and beat the ripped metal back in using the magnet as a hammer.
@@travelingtom923 Yeah... Imagine casting that thing! Unless it's a forging...
What an amazing video, Tom.
Heartily appreciate the innovative concept, design and heavy manufacturing and maintenance. But everything comes from Beautiful Mother Earth 🙏
That is right and it all goes back to mother earth sooner or later.
Unless the can be restored, then possibly.
However, that is not really a good thing to think, as this is a type of machine with many aspects that cannot be made new, today.