Crane ID Help
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Friends, Attached are three photos of an unnumbered crane owned by the Winchester & Western. All three shots were outside their shops at Gore, Virginia, and taken from around 1990s to sometime past 2000 (the color view), but the crane definitely fits our era. Any thoughts on the builder and model. I've looked through my few books with crane photos and don't find a match. George Elwood's Fallen Flags site does not have a photo (yet!). Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
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Looks like a BURRO crane Attached are three photos of an unnumbered crane owned by the Winchester & Western. All three shots were outside their shops at Gore, Virginia, and taken from around 1990s to sometime past 2000 (the color view), but the crane definitely fits our era.
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Ted Schnepf
Hello, I believe all Burro cranes only have two axles. this crane has 4 axles. A guess would be Industrial Brownhoist. Ted Schnepf 126 Will Scarlet, Elgin, Ill. 60120 847=697-5353
On Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 07:50:08 AM CST, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
Looks like a BURRO crane Attached are three photos of an unnumbered crane owned by the Winchester & Western. All three shots were outside their shops at Gore, Virginia, and taken from around 1990s to sometime past 2000 (the color view), but the crane definitely fits our era.
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Here is a truck mounted crane with the same cab/body https://www.flickr.com/photos/67384646@N08/8108383830 One comment says the crane is a Browning .
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Friends,
Attached are three photos of an unnumbered crane owned by the Winchester & Western. All three shots were outside their shops at Gore, Virginia, and taken from around 1990s to sometime past 2000 (the color view), but the crane definitely fits our era.
Any thoughts on the builder and model. I've looked through my few books with crane photos and don't find a match. George Elwood's Fallen Flags site does not have a photo (yet!). Yours Aye,
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What happened to the rear nameplate casting (in the ID photo, not this one)? Both Burros and Brownhoists had it.
On 1/7/2020 10:56 AM, Douglas Harding wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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mofwcaboose <MOFWCABOOSE@...>
Still looking for a good picture of a crane definately identified as a Browning. The crane in the Flickr photo is a close but not exact match. The boom, in particular; note the large gusset at the lower end of the W&W crane boom, which is not present on the truck crane.
I have a suspicion that the car under the W&W crane and the crane itself were once two seperate cranes. It could be that the original crane was a steam crane, probably purchased second-hand, and when it wore out, the crane was removed and this crane installed on the old frame. The resulting lash-up would not have been self propelled and have to be moved about by a locomotive.
John C. La Rue, Jr.
Bonita Springs, FL
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From: Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> To: main <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Tue, Jan 7, 2020 11:35 am Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Crane ID Help What happened to the rear nameplate casting (in the ID photo, not this one)? Both Burros and Brownhoists had it. On 1/7/2020 10:56 AM, Douglas Harding wrote: Here is a truck mounted crane
with the same cab/body https://www.flickr.com/photos/67384646@N08/8108383830
One comment says the crane is a
Browning .
Doug Harding
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
[mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Garth
Groff and Sally Sanford
Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:36 AM To: main@realstmfc.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Crane ID Help Friends,
Attached are three photos of an
unnumbered crane owned by the Winchester & Western.
All three shots were outside their shops at Gore,
Virginia, and taken from around 1990s to sometime past
2000 (the color view), but the crane definitely fits our
era.
Any thoughts on the builder and
model. I've looked through my few books with crane
photos and don't find a match. George Elwood's Fallen
Flags site does not have a photo (yet!).
Yours Aye,
Garth Groff 🦆 -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
John, Yes, I considered that it might be a locally-built conversion. I think the crane was not self-powered, but it is hard to tell for sure from my photos. If it is a cludge, the underframe might be much older and originally had arch-bar or other early trucks, with the AAR trucks being changed during the conversion. Still, it does have a more modern brake wheel and stand, rather than an upright brake wheel and shaft. I wouldn't have expected that to change. I've never heard of the Browning marque, though the cab styles are similar. The general cab design hints at WWII to early 1950s, in keeping with the military crane. The W&W crane has some vague lettering on the A-end of the sideframe which says "xxxx 52", but it is very hard to read, and might have nothing to do with its build date. The difference in the booms might have a lot to do with the crane's capacity and intended reach. Obviously a truck-mounted crane is likely to be a lighter machine that a railroad crane. Cranes were also sometimes re-boomed, or even had extra booms for different tasks. It certainly IS NOT a Burro (at least the underframe isn't), though the cab does have some similarities. AFAIK, all Burro cranes had only four wheels (the largest were Models 40 and 50, and there are plenty of examples of these to compare with). All the Burro cranes I have seen that still had their marque, either had the name painted on, or it was on an enameled plate. I have never seen one with the name cast into a part of the frame on the cab rear, though I'm sure someone will immediately produce such an image. 🙄 Someday I will get back up to Gore to see if the crane is still there, and if so, ask permission to get close to it and also photograph the other side. I haven't been there for a number of years, and since they scrapped out their ALCOs the line has lost a lot of its appeal (one of their RS-11s was still working for the ADM elevator in Winchester just few years ago, but hard to photograph). Last week when I was in the Winchester area it was raining, so I dropped plans to drive over to Gore. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:38 AM mofwcaboose via Groups.Io <MOFWCABOOSE=AOL.COM@groups.io> wrote:
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Jack Mullen
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:56 AM, Garth Groff wrote:
I have never seen one with the name cast into a part of the frame on the cab rear, though I'm sure someone will immediately produce such an image. 🙄Ok, can do: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_wisconsin/15269835176 Actually I cheated a bit, since that's a post steam era Burro. Note the BURRO CRANE INC. identity, c. '70s-'80s. I just couldn't resist a C&NW one. Lest you think the cast name is just a later development, how about this one, a fairly old Model 15, clearly from Cullen-Freistadt: https://jamesmcgillis.com/upload/lg/15_Cullen_Friestedt_CNYCNRS_Burro_Model_15_lg.jpg That site is worth a visit. https://moablive.com/burrocrane/default.asp One small correction, what were discussing isn't just a cast nameplate, the raised lettering is cast in the cast counterweight. Jack Mullen
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Charlie Vlk
All The Cullen-Friestedt Company, while the corporate offices were located in Chicago, had its plant in the former Love Brothers casting and specialty machinery plant in Aurora, Illinois. It was served by the “Alley Job” which was covered in the BRHS Burlington Bulletin No. 51. In the article there is a picture of a Model 30 logo cast into the frame bed. Charlie Vlk
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