Bridge30- Replaced- N Y M R w/ Kirow Rail Crane

[samfp1943]

In another recent thread featured the recovery by a 1000t crane of a couple of wrecked and derailed DMU cars close by a Scottish Loch.  The You Tube video of the recovery was pretty interesting as the crane lifted and manoevered the cars to place them on lowboy trailer for road transport out to repair. 

Large cranes facinate me, and I tracked it down finding links on flickr and put the links on the Thread@

http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/175358.aspx   ( derailed train crained off hillside in Scotland)

Anyway,  to make a long story short. Another Poster Carnej1 placed a link referencing an unusual railroad crane used in Europe: Linked here:  http://www.kranunion.de/index.php?id=51&L=1

Linked here, A PDF describing this Railroad crane: http://www.kranunion.de/fileadmin/Downloads/Kirow/brochures/MULTITASKER_E_ES.pdf

I had never seen anything like the Kirow Multi Tasker.  Apparently it is widely used all over except in the USA, as the website states over 5,000 in use worldwide.   It is an amazing piece of railroad gear and both Paul North ( who had commented as he had not know if it either) and I were surprised at it.

I went on to YouTube and found the following series of clips showing the replacement of Bridge 30 on the NYMR in England.   I thoght others here would be interested and might enjoy this series of clips. The last couple are slightly off topic, but nevertheless enjoyable. Hope others agree. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo6nUdJOOAM&feature=related Kirow enroute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiqqtMx5CyE&feature=related Arrival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW1nLSEBkyI&feature=related Another shot showing work train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADALPEYtADk&feature=related lift out old girder ( Bridge 30)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADALPEYtADk&feature=related place new beam (Bridge 30)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLfe_mfG3hc&feature=related work on bridge area of bridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr3IkTtknbY&feature=related ballast on bridge 30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t88lmY93O0E&feature=related  open to traffic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiqqtMx5CyE  Return Crane and old girders Class 66 Diesel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WteF7bHBleo&feature=related  Steam Bus advertising NYMR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WteF7bHBleo&feature=related  Locomotive 'Oliver Cromwell' NYMR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhpHMQNRqCQ&feature=related  NYMR Steam Gala