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Athearn 200 ton crane
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The plastic Athearn crane is a reasonable match for the Boston and Maine #3365 shown in the New England Color guide. The overall dimensions, boom, car body and 6 wheel trucks are just about right. The roof profile and window detail is slightly different. 3365 was built in 1929 by Industrial Brownhoist and converted to diesel power in 1956. I updated the model to diesel power by removing the smoke stack and covering the hole with a bit of styrene sheet. Painting the grab irons and stirrups safety yellow and glazing the windows helped. The boom hoist tackle on my model is rigged as a single part tackle to ease assembly. The prototype had 6 part tackle to gain the necessary mechanical advantage to raise the boom under load. I believe earlier Athearn kits had pulleys for a 6 part tackle which gives a nicer looking model if you are deft enough to rig such a tackle using invisible black thread.
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