Bill,

Here are a pair of Army crawler cranes loaded onto a flat car. Photo is from the US Signal Corps Archive, Port of Embarkation, Norfolk, Va.

It is important to note that many of the photos supplied are of MOW applications. These differences somewhat from how a crawler crane might be hauled from one place to another as cargo, although there are many similarities as well. Common themes for these loads typically include:

• chocks fore and aft of the treads
• blocking on the inside of the tread to prevent sideways slippage (usually not seen on MOW cranes)
• boom and body tie downs - sometimes a boom support.
• supports under the rear of the body (under the counterweight)