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A red tandem-axle truck with a large red knuckle-boom crane stands on gravel beside yard tracks. A worker in a yellow hard hat sits at the crane controls, and its grapple rests on a load of black crossties. A blue boxcar with an EP herald is at the right. — Download original ↓

c. 1998 · Janesville, WI

A Wisconsin & Southern grapple-crane truck handles crossties beside boxcar WSOR 503173 in a rail yard, August 1998.

Date: c. 1998Estimated from the photograph; no date was written on the print.
Location: Janesville, WIApproximate location, placed at the center of the town.
Vehicle: Freight car
Operator: Wisconsin and Southern Railroad
Fleet numbers: Wisconsin and Southern Railroad 503173

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