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Monon Property => M.O.W. Equipment => Topic started by: Tom Kepshire on February 23, 2012, 10:17:27 am

Title: Crane BC 94
Post by: Tom Kepshire on February 23, 2012, 10:17:27 am

Monon MOW Crane BC 94 on Flat Car 80054, Lafayette, Indiana, about tea time... ;D

Title: Re: Crane BC 94
Post by: Ron Marquardt on February 23, 2012, 10:26:02 am

Tom, here's another view of BC 94 doing a little work.  / Ron

Title: Re: Crane BC 94
Post by: Tim T Swan on February 23, 2012, 03:49:01 pm

BC = Burro Crane???

Also, shouldn't those guys be wearing hardhats???

Title: Re: Crane BC 94
Post by: Tom Kepshire on February 23, 2012, 04:10:16 pm

Hard hats??? We don't need no stinking hard hats. Different era, different rules...

Title: Re: Crane BC 94
Post by: James W Smith on June 23, 2012, 02:28:43 pm

Pre-OSHA.  And for all you guys who think Osha is a small town in Wisconsin, boy-howdy are you in trouble!
Doc JW of Bugs

Title: Re: Crane BC 94
Post by: Mark Johnson on June 24, 2012, 09:46:28 am

Hard hats are protection only from minor bumps. Years back, when the convention toured the Amtrak Beech Grove shops, we didn't have to wear hard hats - their logic was that the overhead stuff all weighed 50 to 200 tons, so if they dropped it on you, a hard hat wouldn't do much.

Mark J
Columbia MO

Title: Re: Crane BC 94
Post by: Tom Kepshire on June 24, 2012, 12:01:53 pm

No kidding? Gee, I thought it was because our group looked so out of place. Just kidding. That was a really good tour. I enjoyed it.

Title: Re: Crane BC 94
Post by: Gene Remaly on June 25, 2012, 06:37:50 am

Looks like a very light duty crane.  It has no couplers for handling a rail car. The "rail grabber thingie" suggests to me that a length of rail was a about all it would pick.
The deck is waist high to the people standing next to it indicating it had very small wheels.