Gantry Crane - HO

Gantry Crane - HOThe prototype of this Gantry Crane was located on the Great Northern near Willmar MN and was built during the 1930s. It was used to lift heavy objects between rail cars and motor vehicles. Examples of products transferred include quarry stones, pre cast concrete items, steel coils, structural steel shapes and rails and anything else that would not roll off a flat car or gondola. Model footprint is 5 inches long by 2 5 8 inches wide. The crane is 4

this book should be in your library

and evidently destroyed

When section houses outlived their usefulness in the 1950s and 1960s

The Great Northern Standard 12’ x 34’ Portable Depot represents an historically important railroad structure

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most track maintenance was performed by a crew that worked an assigned ‘section’ of the railroad

This model of a 30 foot plywood side caboose is 100% laser cut components with custom laser scribed side and end walls

at agency stations

By Mac McCulloch and John E

Detailed instructions and easy construction

along with the associated waybills

The depot was relocated to the north side of the main line and rebuilt to its final 24 x 106 size in 1922 to clear the ground for the addition of three additional yard tracks and to improve public access to the depot since the bulk of the town