Rare Critter at Work: Model 40 Burro Rebuilds a Crossing
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In the summer of 2020 I had the opportunity to see a Model 40 Burro Crane, one of the last of its kind, replacing a railroad crossing in Barrington IL.
Filmed over two weeks, you’ll see an incredibly rare look at an antique Burro Crane in the hands of an expert operator; lifting concrete panels and chunks of roadway, traveling at speed, and shoving with all its might against two to three train cars.
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This video contains eight separate days, which you can watch one or two at a time (I wanted to keep everything together instead of uploading 8 separate videos). When KZread is working correctly, you can click on the times below to automatically start the video at the beginning of the selected day:
0:00 - Start
1:22 - Day 0 - Journey to Barrington
12:26 - Day 1 - Road Removal
55:21 - Day 2 - Replacing Track 2
1:12:30 - Day 3 - Replacing Track 1
1:47:08 - Day 4 - Getting the New Crossing
2:27:38 - Day 5 - Double Runaround
2:49:00 - Day 6 - New Road
3:28:06 - Day 7 - Returning the Ballast Hoppers
Think of this like chasing an antique steam engine, but more exciting. There are even fewer of them in operation, they're doing work instead of showing off, they don't announce where they'll be and when so it's more of a challenge, they lift and move things with the crane boom, and it's neat to see the small crane struggle to move freight cars that are bigger than itself.
Model 40 Burro Cranes went into production at the end of WWII and in the following decades were commonplace on railroads across North America. Some say the last Model 40 Burro Crane rolled out of the factory as late as the 1990's. Since then, few have survived into modern day and they seem to be mostly forgotten about. The short videos linked below are the only 'modern' footage I've been able to find of one doing more than rolling along with a flatcar:
• Bealville Track Mainte...
• SP 8251 At Bealville P...
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All those people standing around are supervisors? What a way to run a railroad!
JAM Packed with awesome cool machines & skilled operators & SAFE hard workers. Thank you for the nice long video. I enjoyed it. Subbed.
WOW , A Lionel 3360 Burro crane in action . very realistic looking layout !
I have an HO scale model of a Burro crane, so this video was great to see. Thanks!
This reminds me of the children's book Mike Mulligan & his Steam Shovel - 1939. 💜 Your description of its history is much appreciated.
Great job glad the weather cooperated with you as well
Great video indeed... Fantastic
This operator is very good.
Old Detroit 2 stroke!!! Sound like v6 or smaller 4 cylinder.
pretty cool, I am surprised there is still anyone around that knows how to run one let alone do it well.
Very interesting machines, it’s amazing how things are so automized nowadays. I wonder how many days it used to take to put in one mile of track manually vs nowadays from start to finish? Always loved all things trains and related to them. ❤😎👍
Cool vid
It might be an an antique, but it still gets the job done
Nice
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We’re you up in Barrington a week or two ago recording the track equipment as it went by? Just curious if it was you and if you have the video. I’d love to see it!
How are repairs made to the tracks for street running trains?
why do they need so many people standing around watching some one work
@arpschneider
2 жыл бұрын
Because it's a union job...
I was wondering what is the track speed of that Crane
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2:55:31
@garygivan7196
Жыл бұрын
I have enjoyed this video, it would have helped if there was a little more times of explanation of what was going on.
Not much work being done there, the Buro spends more time going from siding to siding and everyone is just standing around watching There is probably a more efficient and cheaper way to accomplish the same thing. Interesting machine though.