Overland Models wrecking crane. C&S #99001 was the only crane on the entirety of the CB&Q system to have torsion bars on the boom.
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Q heaven, Mark!
Mark S:
Very nice !!!
Please show more photos of your brass steamer & Aeolus !!!
Thanks in advance!!!
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CB&Q Bill - NP Yellowstone is only photo I have immediately available. Will shoot some of "Big Alice the Goon" (Aeolus) and post soon!
The crane is beautiful !
Hi Mark:
I am looking forward to Alice !!!
Thanks in advance !!'
Thanks Ron.
#99001 was used to clean up the tragic wreck of northbound passenger train #29 (from memory) and a southbound freight. The accident took the life of the passenger train engineer (long service - worked on the South Park narrow gauge when first hired on). This wreck plus an additional wreck up in Wyoming took about seven diesels out of service, forcing the C&S to beg CB&Q HQ in Chicago for more motive power. They sent out five O1a 2-8-2's. All of this prolonged C&S steam operation into the early Spring of 1959.
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Overland Models wrecking crane. C&S #99001 was the only crane on the entirety of the CB&Q system to have torsion bars on the boom.
This one is very beautiful I thank Overland models did this models the one I have you know the UP version but the one you have is more detail inside.
Ed - I will bet the detail is in your Union Pacific crane, just hidden behind steel weather protection covering. The open cranes typically had a canvas curtain to protect crews in harsh winter conditions.
Dear Mark, yes but yours is more open I like that one to
Overland did a great job.
Edwin: A detail not seen in our photos is the operation of the Overland crane. The big gear turns, the piston/drive rod flails and the flywheel, well, "flies". Then the crane moves on it's own. Pretty neat to witness !!
@mark s posted:Edwin: A detail not seen in our photos is the operation of the Overland crane. The big gear turns, the piston/drive rod flails and the flywheel, well, "flies". Then the crane moves on it's own. Pretty neat to witness !!
You one works But mine the cables are no longer in place I saw that you could move them.
