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Some on the board will have seen these, other might not, but since the great post on the coal wreck by Chris, I thought some other pics might be in order... This equipment all belongs to Winters Rigging inc, based in North Collins NY. I grew up working for them on and off since I was 16 years old. I started washing trucks and sweeping floors with always some equipment lessons or seat time thrown in. I ended up operating sidebooms, crane trucks, dozers,lowboy, and all the other iron over the next thirty five or so years. My father ran the office as general manager for about twenty years or so While it was still called Winters Railroad Service. I shot these pics while the trucks were all lined up for a parade durig Edwin Winter's funeral. Edwin founded the company with his brother Clarence in the early 50's and grew to be one of the oldest and largest single location derailment services in the country. The only other one in those days was ML Hulcher, which grew to become a North American wide operation under the founders son Glen Hulcher. I have worked on many hundreds of wrecks all over the northeast US and Canada.The equipment Winters uses is heavily modified and beefed up compared to Hulchers machines with shop built booms, bracing, extra weights, etc. Any questions just ask. I don't go on wrecks much anymore, but have always been freinds with the Winter Famliy. The business is currently owned by Travis Winter, the grandson of Clarence. They do all kinds of transportation emergency work,and lots of rigging work in plants, etc. They have a very large fleet of equipment, most of which is not in these pics.               
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Now I am really glad he prompted you to put those up, Tim.....great pics and good start to my day.
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Nice Tim! I remember those. Thanks! - Chris 
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Love it Tim! I have enjoyed your posts from the years of some of the recovery work you have been on and here the fleet of the equipment. Interesting line of work!! So as long as you are on the subject why not post some recovery action shots too! I am sure we would all love it!
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Bobm2004 wrote:Love it Tim! I have enjoyed your posts from the years of some of the recovery work you have been on and here the fleet of the equipment. Interesting line of work!! So as long as you are on the subject why not post some recovery action shots too! I am sure we would all love it! I agree, this equipment looks fantastic. More pictures, please!
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Great pictures Tim brings back the times I was on the derailment sites just wish I was still doing it but with the accident it is no longer possible Hulcher is the only company out here in Washington now that I know of have seen them work a couple of derailments out here the company that I was working for finally when out of business some years ago just looked at the pictures that Chris posted on his site and there are a lot I will go back later and take a closer look........
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great pics as always Tim,
Gonna ask the stupid question here, but why does a train derailment recovery company have pushcats?
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Jim
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Jimi wrote:great pics as always Tim,
Gonna ask the stupid question here, but why does a train derailment recovery company have pushcats?
More so winch tractors. Gotta have a blade so you can anchor yourself for those heavy drags. Tim, any shots of the boom trailers? Have a few shots of Hulchers rigs. There was a derailment about 1/4mile down the road from my job site last summer. I was right at the end of a turn lane, from there on to the railroad, the road went down to 2 lanes. The Hulcher crew promptly set up traffic control, jumped the tractors off the trailers, made a hard left. The lowboys pulled out, and the trucks with the booms pulled in. They had everything unloaded, assembled and walking down the road in 30 minutes. Impressive to say the least.     
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Hi Tim ! The D-8 is it a cushion push dozer converted to be narrow and is it pre 1972 with no ROPS ?? . It also looks like the cab has been lowered ??? Thank You John PS How about the finished arch bridge on the Cold Spring job .
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cause they are paid off 
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Great pics Tim! Always love seeing those trucks go by! The Mantis was on a few track lines over from me at work not too long ago, I think a coal car skipped the track. And apparently a few year earlier, their D8 was in our yard scarifying it.
Question: Why do these recovery companies all have older CAT sidebooms?
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What is the truck crane in the last 3 pictures of Tim's set good for (Tonnage)?
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PileDriving wrote:What is the truck crane in the last 3 pictures of Tim's set good for (Tonnage)?
Justin looks like a glorified boom truck to me.... got a ton of parts of line though on the hook.... im curious on this as well
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That is a Mantis 30011 Rerailer (150 tons). Here is the load chart and the specs. - Chris 
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Chris is right, 150 tons. Here is Winter's website http://www.wintersrigging.com/
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Great shots Tim thanks. All I can say is holy hook blocks, the units on the T-450 are for sideboom use correct? G
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Nice pics Tim, what was the name of the company that was is Sayre,Pa????
I can remember from back in the 70s there were a couple of derailments in the area of Geneva,NY (my home town) and they had crews from Sayre come to work the scene.
Thanks again for the awesome pics, I love seeing the sideboom derailment equipment as all of that stuff (I'm also a big railroad fan too and model railroader)!!!
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thanks turbo, i saw the winches after I asked and in hind sight it makes sense, narrower blade lets you keep it on for faster response time
regards,
Jim
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ConstructionSite wrote:That is a Mantis 30011 Rerailer (150 tons). Here is the load chart and the specs. - Chris Pretty slick little outfit. Certainly caught my attention... 
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