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TonyK375

September 06, 2016 10:42PM

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I have read that some railroad cranes had "rail clamps" My guess is that these are some sort of stabilizing chains securing the crane deck to the rails. I wonder if the Pile drivers had something similar. There are pics of the OB laying on its side, so must have been an issue.

I did a google image search on railroad pile drivers and saw lots of pics of top heavy machines perched on the end of spindley trestles. Pretty cool stuff. Not a job I would like!

Standard gauge but must be similar. I don't think I would like to operate that thing!

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Building a new Pile Trestle	drgw0579	September 06, 2016 05:24AM
Re: Building a new Pile Trestle	TonyK375	September 06, 2016 10:42PM
Re: Building a new Pile Trestle	TonyK375	September 06, 2016 10:48PM
Re: Building a new Pile Trestle	Johnson Barr	September 07, 2016 12:13AM
Re: Building a new Pile Trestle	dougvv	September 07, 2016 06:36AM
Re: Building a new Pile Trestle	tomc	September 07, 2016 08:17AM
Re: Restoring two Pile Trestles . . .	Russo Loco	September 07, 2016 03:17PM
Re: Restoring two Pile Trestles . . .	dougvv	September 07, 2016 09:18PM
Re: Building a new Pile Trestle	Dirk Ramsey	September 07, 2016 03:48AM
Re: Building a new Pile Trestle	Chris Walker	September 07, 2016 04:08AM
Re: Building a new Pile Trestle	TonyK375	September 07, 2016 08:53PM

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