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Hi-Rail Crane History
Isringhausen use to have their own train wrecking services. They used sideboom cats and designed and built the first Brute cranes. They sold out to Hulcher and his two sons started Cranemasters. Later SpanDeck bought the design and now manufactures the 150T Mantis. At one time, Pettibone built their own cranes. Kershaw bought out the rights for the Holmes cranes. Little Giant tried to market a 100T re-rail crane. BN ordered three of them took delivery of two and cancelled the third. Little Giant finished that crane derated it to 60t and sold it to a commuter railroad up north. Now for the sidebooms...RJ Corman and Hulcher both use Caterpillar pipelayers which are basically D7 and D8 bulldozer, so the 572 is the D7 with the pipelaying attachment and the 583 is the D8 with the pipelaying attachment. The 572 weighs a lot less and it can be transported with the weight attached to the tractor, the 583 has to be completely torn down." per Paul Knowles
AMTK Burro crane ŠCharles Trapani Jr.-GS	Burro Crane #RC51289 Dick Leonhardt	NJT Burro 67 grader #EG303 William Barry	NJT Burro 67 grader #EG303 William Barry
CSX Little Giant Crane Mike Oestreich	UP Little Giant crane D.L. Owings	CN Little Giant #46108 Paul Duncan	CP Little Giant crane #2540402 Bob Boudreau
NS Little Giant #TC7502LN Arnold Morscher	DME Little Giant 32R hi-rail #262049, Pierre SD 1997Doug Johnson	Little Giant #X1500115, Sprague, WA 2003 Peter Bieber	LIRR Little Gaint , Richmond Hill NY 2004 Marc Pitanza
CSX Little Giant #MC8602, Henderson, KY 2005 Keith Takarsh	UP Little Giant crane , OgalIala NE 2006 Amaro Rocha	Little Giant crane, Ripplemead, VA 2001 Joe Shaw	UP Little Giant #174029 , Milwaukee, WI Keith Belk
BN hi-rail crane #X1500071, Crawford NE 1996 Doug Johnson	CTX Little Giant #RTC536, Harpers Ferry, WV 2006 M Abbott	Metro-North "Little Giant" crane , Poughkeepsie, NY 1989 Joseph A. Smith Coll	Hulcher 125T Brute, Kansas City MO div Paul Knowles
Hulcher 130T Paul Knowles	NS Brute 140 crane , Suffolk VA 1999 Russell Underwood	Cranemaster 'Brute' by Loren Isringhausen Cranemasters	Cranemaster 60T Holmes Cranemasters
Hulcher 60T Holmes, Kansas City MO div Paul Knowles	UP Holmes , Boone, IA 1998	IAIS Holmes crane , Council Bluffs, IA 2009	Hulcher 110T Kershaw #52-017, Twin Cities div Paul Knowles
Hulcher 110T Kershaw crane #52-017, Winona, MN Doug Johnson	CP Kershaw crane #414049 Tom Hannon	Guilford Kershaw Crane NAPA	SP Kershaw Hi-rail crane #31820219 , Roseville, CA 1994 Randy Keller
R.J. Corman CAT 595 2004 Paul Knowles	RJ Corman CAT 572 D7 side booms, Kansas City KS div Paul Knowles	RJ Corman CAT 572 D7 & 583 D8 side booms, Kansas City KS div Paul Knowles	Hulcher side boom CAT, Winona, MN Doug Johnson
Alaska RR Komatsu D355C sideboom Richard Wise	Alaska RR Komatsu D355C sideboom Richard Wise	Cranemaster 150T Mantis Pete Piszczek	BNSF 150T Mantis, Lincolin NB Paul Knowles
BN Mantis 30011 150T crane #96085, Council Bluffs, IA 2005 Keith Belk	BNSF 150T Mantis crane, Tacoma WA Russell	BN Mantis crane, Seattle, WA 1995 Keith Belk	CN Mantis #26010, Foxholm, ND, 3-9-1974 Luc Charron
Alaska RR Pettibone 260A 130T, blt 1984 \| INFO \| Richard Wise	CP Pettibone 260 RRC 130T #414042, 2003, blt 1985 John Veldhoen	CP Pettibone 260 #414042, Feild British Col 2002 Tom Price	Juniata 110T Pettibone #220, Juniata Terminal, Philadelphia PA Rich White II
RJ Corman 110T Pettibone, Saint Louis IL Paul Knowles	CP Pettibone 220 RR 110T #414033, 2003, blt 1983 John Veldhoen	UP Petttibone 150T #82620 2004 Paul Knowles	CR Pettibone 220 Crane Bruce Z. Friedman
Cranemaster 110T pettibone Cranemasters	Oak Island Pettibone crane Jeff Lubchansky	CP Pettibone 130T & Holmes 60T #414032, Moyie BC CAN 1992 Ed Koski	BO crane #X1397 ŠKermit Geary Jr.-GS
CR Galion crane #CH1312 Brendan Kelly	CSX crane hi-rail William Barry	CP Truck w/crane Joe Blizman	IAIS road or rail crane Dick Tinder
NS Bantam T-744 crane, Norris Yard, Irondale, AL Emanuel Neiconi	Norfolk Portsmith Belt line Bantam crane , Milkbank ON	Bantam crane,	RDG Bantam Crane #847 Bob Redden
RDG Bantam crane #847 , Allentown PA 1969	AMTK P&H Crane #A57001 Bruce Z. Friedman	Railroad Maint P&H crane, 180St NY1969 Steve Zabel-JT	P&H 325TC 25T crane, blt 1967 San Diego Railroad Museum
CR Crane & Brendan, Savannah NY #CH1526 Brendan Kelly	100T Crane, Wichita, KS 2002 Nick Harvey-Phillips	CSX Grove RT58 crane, Stephensport KY 2002 Road Warrier	Norfolk Franklin & Danville road railer crane #11625, Franklin VA 1984 Russell Underwood
American #5460	Hulcher hi-rail #32-3-003, Winona MN 1998 Doug Johnson	Duluth & Northeastern crane/plow , Cloquet MN Jim Sands	BNSF 130T 'Blue Goose', Sandpoint ID 2004 trakside
BN 130T 'Blue Goose' crane, Seattle, WA 1995 Keith Belk	Cline #31800387 Alex Huff-David koziol	CN hi-rail crane #404447, Levis Quebec 2002 Lester Zmudzinski	R J Corman Crew Cab Crane , Centerville, IL 2004 Keith Belk
BN Drott 1800 crane , Galesburg, IL 2004 Keith Belk	UP crane #8928, Saint Louis 2005 Keith Belk	UP Mack crane #GVW8000, Saint Louis 2005 Keith Belk	BNSF crane truck #16494, Rochelle, IL 2005 Chris
UP crane truck #GVW80000, 2005 Chris	BNSF Ford boom truck L8000 , Fairland, OK 2006 Chris	BNSF hi-rail #13254 , Vinita, OK2006 Chris	KS Freightline boom truck #703533 , FL Westville, OK 2006 Chris
UP International 4900 boom truck #60166, Pryor, OK 2006 Chris	CN hi rail crane , Roberts Bank BC 2006 Stephen Rees	BNSF hi rail crane #13172, Guernsey, WY 2006 Amaro Rocha	BNSF hi rail crane #20078, Guernsey, WY 2006 Amaro Rocha
UP hi rail crane #82699, OgalIala NE 2006 Amaro Rocha	MTA boom truck #780, 2005 Tom	BNSF Ford L 800 boom truck #12447 , St. Louis County, OK 2006 Chris	BNSF Freightliner boom truck #18598 , St. Louis County, OK 2006 Chris
Alton & Southern International 4900 #50265 , Alorton, IL 2006 Keith Belk	UP Grove crane #MC0301 Kevin Kuehl	BNSF Brandt3028 crane #98012 Matt	Kenneth R Wilkerson Freightliner , Granite City, IL 2006 MOWBuff
AMTK HiRail #AH63832 , Readville, MA. 2008. Jack Clifford	CN hi-rail crane #77035 , Centralia, IL 2008 Justin Draper	BNSF hi-rail crane #39217, Barstow, CA 2009 Chris Payne	Pan Am crane, Orrington, ME 2010 Travis Bragg'
AMTK Badger CD4430R 30T crane , Landover MD 2010 Paul Marxen	UP Badger CD4430 30T crane , 2010 Paul Marxen	PW 80T Hi-rail crane #W2207 , Cumberland, RI 2009 Michael Delage	STL&H high rail crane #414031 Montreal 2000

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