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AAR Class: MWW: Wrecking Derrick. A derrick used for wrecking purposes, having donkey engine to raise and lower booms and hoists; engine housed in and on separate platform with boom, is pivoted in center of car frame in order that it can be worked on either side or ends; usually fitted with anchor beams to be used for heavy lifting. Fitted with safety appliances and propelled by means of locomotive. Lifting capacity in tons shown by means of figures.
AAR Type: M250
Detail Info:   Misc Cars

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WPMW 37
Title:  WPMW 37
Description:  MOW - Crane
Photo Date:  6/17/1973  Upload Date: 8/16/2018 8:15:37 PM
Location:  Oroville, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  229   Comments: 0
Western Pacific MW 200 ton crane #37
Title:  Western Pacific MW 200 ton crane #37
Description:  WPMW 37. Big Hook with boom car.
Photo Date:  10/27/1975  Upload Date: 11/3/2017 9:03:40 PM
Location:  Oroville, CA
Author:  Steven Vincent
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  235   Comments: 0
WPMW 37
Title:  WPMW 37
Description:  MOW - Crane
Photo Date:  8/16/1980  Upload Date: 8/16/2018 8:16:21 PM
Location:  Oroville, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  205   Comments: 0
WPMW 37
Title:  WPMW 37
Description:  MOW - Crane
Photo Date:  5/9/1987  Upload Date: 8/16/2018 8:17:12 PM
Location:  Oroville, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  194   Comments: 0
Fire on the UP Main line
Title:  Fire on the UP Main line
Description:  Working on the bridge
Photo Date:  9/7/2008  Upload Date: 7/12/2013 9:34:19 PM
Location:  San Antonio, TX
Author:  daniel mesa
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  147   Comments: 0
MP 64
Title:  MP 64
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/19/2009  Upload Date: 1/24/2009 11:56:11 AM
Location:  Odem, TX
Author:  John Briggs
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  455   Comments: 0
MP 62
Title:  MP 62
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/27/2015  Upload Date: 12/23/2015 3:50:21 PM
Location:  Odem, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  80   Comments: 0
MP 62
Title:  MP 62
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/27/2015  Upload Date: 12/23/2015 3:50:23 PM
Location:  Odem, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  74   Comments: 0
MP 62
Title:  MP 62
Description:  UP Brownsville Sub
Photo Date:  7/5/2016  Upload Date: 9/26/2016 3:17:54 AM
Location:  Odem, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  73   Comments: 1
MP 62
Title:  MP 62
Description:  UP Brownsville Sub
Photo Date:  7/5/2016  Upload Date: 9/26/2016 3:18:00 AM
Location:  Odem, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  99   Comments: 1
C&WI #1900
Title:  C&WI #1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/2004  Upload Date: 9/12/2010 3:51:43 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  409   Comments: 0
C&WI #1900
Title:  C&WI #1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/30/2005  Upload Date: 8/9/2010 1:25:37 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  444   Comments: 0
C&WI 1900
Title:  C&WI 1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/17/2006  Upload Date: 12/21/2009 7:32:57 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  201   Comments: 0
C&WI 1900
Title:  C&WI 1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/17/2006  Upload Date: 12/21/2009 7:34:13 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  250   Comments: 0
"Roundhouse Leads"
Title:  "Roundhouse Leads"
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/15/2007  Upload Date: 8/11/2010 6:09:38 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  542   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana Crane
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana Crane
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/15/2007  Upload Date: 8/11/2010 6:10:41 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  930   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana Idler Flat for Crane
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana Idler Flat for Crane
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:21 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station
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Views:  146   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:28 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,Station
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Views:  128   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:34 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
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Views:  124   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:41 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
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Views:  151   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:47 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
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Views:  143   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:53 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
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Views:  119   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:33:01 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
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Views:  129   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:33:09 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
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Views:  163   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:33:22 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
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Views:  134   Comments: 0
Grand Trunk Western 0-8-0 Steam Locomotive & Steam Crane
Title:  Grand Trunk Western 0-8-0 Steam Locomotive & Steam Crane
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:33:58 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:34:14 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  199   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  9/21/2013  Upload Date: 9/30/2013 8:37:11 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  152   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  9/21/2013  Upload Date: 9/30/2013 8:37:36 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  171   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  10/13/2013  Upload Date: 10/17/2013 4:43:45 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock,Steam
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Views:  267   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  10/13/2013  Upload Date: 10/17/2013 4:44:20 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  10/13/2013  Upload Date: 10/17/2013 4:44:57 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  Steam
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Views:  280   Comments: 2
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  10/13/2013  Upload Date: 10/17/2013 5:04:47 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  Steam
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Views:  334   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana wrecker and idler flat
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana wrecker and idler flat
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 6:42:11 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  367   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam wrecker built by Industrial Works in 1906.
Photo Date:  7/7/2018  Upload Date: 9/4/2018 8:13:45 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  92   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/2018  Upload Date: 7/31/2019 12:33:05 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Joseph C.
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CO 2707(2-8-4) GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  506   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 1904
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 1904
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/2018  Upload Date: 7/31/2019 12:36:48 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Joseph C.
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CO 2707(2-8-4) GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
Greetings from Lake Union
Title:  Greetings from Lake Union
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/2018  Upload Date: 9/4/2018 10:55:48 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  363   Comments: 0
Receding Flood Waters
Title:  Receding Flood Waters
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/2018  Upload Date: 9/4/2018 11:26:46 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  338   Comments: 0
Wrecker at Sunset
Title:  Wrecker at Sunset
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 3:33:23 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  157   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana Wrecker
Description:  The Illinois Railway Museum's 112-year-old 100-ton steam wrecker.
Photo Date:  10/13/2018  Upload Date: 10/17/2018 8:47:33 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  129   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana Wrecker
Description:  Looking like a wreck train sitting on a siding of some obscure shortline.
Photo Date:  10/13/2018  Upload Date: 10/17/2018 9:24:42 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  226   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  A 100-ton steam wrecker built by Industrial Works in 1906.
Photo Date:  10/13/2018  Upload Date: 10/17/2018 9:29:01 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  185   Comments: 1
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/13/2018  Upload Date: 10/17/2018 9:30:44 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  211   Comments: 1
Chicago & Western Indiana #1904
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1904
Description:  With sway rods and arch bar trucks, the C&WI wrecker's flatcar is quite the vestige of railroadings past.
Photo Date:  10/13/2018  Upload Date: 10/17/2018 9:32:36 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  166   Comments: 1
CWI 1900
Title:  CWI 1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/3/2021  Upload Date: 10/17/2021 11:45:55 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Nicholas Katz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Track
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Views:  93   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana Steam Wrecker
Description:  115-year-old 100-ton crane
Photo Date:  7/26/2021  Upload Date: 8/2/2021 1:53:29 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  150   Comments: 0
C&WI Crane 1900
Title:  C&WI Crane 1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/15/2022  Upload Date: 6/24/2022 11:32:09 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Wil Hata
Categories: 
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Views:  95   Comments: 0
Western Indiana Wrecker
Title:  Western Indiana Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/15/2023  Upload Date: 6/13/2023 5:44:22 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  138   Comments: 0
Wreck train waits for the call
Title:  Wreck train waits for the call
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/1984  Upload Date: 12/4/2008 9:00:21 PM
Location:  Gander, NL
Author:  Jim Larduskey
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  1049   Comments: 4


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