I'm guessing they are either putting the shop truck on to send the car off for further repairs, or they are in the proces sof removing it to replace with a normal truck now that the car is repaired.
As for height - maybe someone wanted to make it easier to hook up the brake rigging, having it that height makes it easy to get underneath, even thoughit's not strictly necessary to jack it up that high to pull a truck.
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mvlandswMaybe they had other work to do on the underframe.
Those look like shop trucks, too. No springs!
I have a Simplex jack similar to those in the photo. I call it a "track Jack" as there is also a small foot at the bottom where it can be placed under the base of a rail.
Regards, Ed
I used to do that with air operated jacks. It must be fun with manual jacks.
They seemed to have raised the car much higher than necessary to work on the truck. Maybe they had other work to do on the underframe.
I have one of those jacks, and when I got it, the guy called a railroad jack. It was at a construction action, and at the time, I used to do underpinning jobs, building a basement under a house that originally had no basement. Actually, I had 2 of them, don't remember what happened to the other other one.
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Watch those jacks!
Ed
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