C&M 250 Ton Crane Demo 

The 250 ton railroad wrecker in this video is Industrial Brownhoist No. 12369 built in 1957. It is the former Missouri Kansas Texas #X-255, Chesapeake & Ohio #WC-32 to #940006, Cooperstown & Marne Ry #940006. Great Video!

He said “programming” the controls! Ha! I ran a 250 ton Brownhoist exactly like this for Southern Railway/Norfolk Southern in the 80’s. These things were a workout to operate - no joysticks in those days - and you always hoped that the chain you leaned against while operating it didn’t break! Looong way down! There was always a lot of pressure on the “Derrick engineer” due to the difficulty of operating these things added with the yelling and screaming of the Railroad bosses to hurry up and clear the wrecked equipment! “We gotta run trains!”, only they used much more colorful language! These things were beasts, everything built ultra heavy, but contractors with sideboom pipelayer bulldozers rendered them useless by the early 90’s!

Big Bessie seems like a fitting name for this thing. How awesome!

19:18 lol "your slipping gears that are 4 inches thick" that thing is all kinds of epic.

I love the industrial brutality of this machine. It is primordial and stark. A cold Titan in its twilight - a mechanical Kraken.

at the North Metro Model Railroad Club, we have one like this in HO scale that is fully operational and it will life a Proto2000 off the track and re align it.

It's my understanding that the green color of the idler flat car came from a 50/50 mixture of the C&O colors Federal Yellow and Enchantment Blue. The C&O painted a lot of M.o.W. equipment this green color with the yellow used on grab irons and such.

Wonderful, thank you!

@gvi341984 A pair of JVC HM100u cameras, a Contour 1080p camera on a custom mount (a modified Gorillapod), and a pair of Audio Technical professional series wireless microphones.

I love this machine!

@1stfreestuff Big Bertha was the second largest gun used in the second world war (next to the Ghostly Paris Gun)

What you didn;t cover is what grade of diesel fuel it uses, low grade, bunker-c,.? It was smoking quite heavy at times.

we have one of those in 200 ton at the L&WV. we call it Orton.

@Serostern Cory was there, running teh camera crew. The black haired chick is Mike.

that thing is awsome!

as stiff as that crane is, it isn't nearly as bad as the one I used to work with. I used to work for Delaware Lackawanna in Scranton, PA and boy did that thing fight us. It's an old AMERICAN crane they got off of CP. It's biggest problem was that the clutch on the swing never wanted to fully engage. I miss it though. Lots of fun memories there...

So.. what did they name it?

What audio and video equipment was used?

@thegeekgroup Thank you so muc

Epic.

Would like you to have spent some time with the outriggers.

Neat!

I am gonna submit "Ol' Iron Sides". A name from the very first baldwin built steam locomotive

Excelent fun show...call it Marsha...lol

I recommend Freyja (pronounced Frey-ya) for a name of that fine piece of craftsmanship, Freyja is a Norse name which means "Lady" And is associated with Beauty

And by the way, that thing's name is called Daisy. No question about it.

Call her Mary Gene

How about "Lady Georgina" from the short story "THE ADVENTURE OF THE CANTANKEROUS OLD LADY" couldn't be more fitting ;)

Titania is fitting for such a powerful woman ;D

LuLu Belle

LOL "Your slipping gears that are four inches thick!?!?" As for the name of it I'm gonna go with "Big Becky"

Big linda

@thegeekgroup lol

Bertha

Martha

@Serostern I'm not a chick O.o

going to go with Yvonne as it sounds like the woman STUBON old gall

bessy

@Serostern i'm mahhhhglahhhhvahn, and and my buddy mike is a black haired chick. apparently. our mutual friends are already starting lulz over it.

old betsy

big moma

Who is the black haired chick? And what happened to cory? Did you sell him to Satan? :O

Wenche its norwegian pronounced Vehn-keh