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#1

Neat website, from the Home page check out “Derailments”

http://www.rjcorman.com/gallery.html

I see them go bye all the time. I had no idea they were national. I thought it was a local company.

#2

Cool -

The boxcar with the round yellow metal framework around it. At first I thought that was some kind of rig to right the car, but then realized that it is a clearance car for the NASA Solid Rocket Booster cars to follow. I new the SRB;s travel by rail but I’ve never seen pictures of the train.

#3

Nice gallery of pictures…

#4

Dirty job , but someone has to do it…:wink:

#5

Actually, it kind of looks like fun. Big equipment, tearing stuff up, putting it back together, its kind of like a big train set or Spring Cleanup of a garden railroad on a 1 to 1 scale.

#6
Ric Golding said:
Actually, it kind of looks like fun. Big equipment, tearing stuff up, putting it back together, its kind of like a big train set or Spring Cleanup of a garden railroad on a 1 to 1 scale.
I agree. The modifications to the dozers are really pretty simple. I would have thought they were using much larger cranes. Ralph
#7

I was told those cranes came from the build of the Alaskan Pipeline. Note how the counter weight gets extended out to counter the force of the lift.

#8

RJ Corman even has its own rail equipment…saw a pair of their diseasls at the local Ashland Oil Refinery not long ago See their trucks all the time here too…of Course when ya got CSX nearby…Crash, Spill, eXplode!!!

#9

We passed a convoy of RJ Corman side-cranes on Sunday. They were headed North on I-87 as we went South heading home from Lake George. Must have been a derailment somewhere up North. I wouldn’t have noticed them if I hadn’t seen the convoy pictures on the website link in Ric’s post.