of non-revenue equipment. These are the kinds of cars that almost everyone has, but almost no one runs. 
Such as...
a 250 ton Bucyrus-Erie wreck crane. I picked up this one on the "used" table at the LHS. I think it's by either Bachmann or Model Power. I added a few details to backdate it a bit, then built the boom car to go with it from an Athearn 50' flatcar. The flatcar got a scratchbuilt wooden deck, plus some low sides with equipment boxes and a small carbody for tool storage, built from styrene.
or a 120 ton Industrial Brownhoist version. This one, also riding the Lowbanks turntable, is a modified Tichy model. The boom idler car was built from an Athearn 40' flatcar, modified similarily to 166A.
This American derrick is an unpowered Walthers model that's been modified to make it appear similar to a crane where I used to work. The large reel on the side of the boom is for a magnet cable, not yet installed. The boom car, another Athearn 50'-er, has a wooden deck and new low sides.
Jordan spreader 156 is making a rare mainline appearance in Elfrida, rare because the wing plows, even unextended, tend to hit all sorts of lineside details. Besides ditching and roadbed grooming, this spreader is a key piece of snow-fighting equipment. Its well-kept appearance is testament to the weather-proof qualities of the layout room. 
Here she is at rest, just outside of the carshops at Lowbanks. Too wide to fit through the doorway, her usual parking spot is behind the loco shop, just north of the crane runway.
With the left wing-plow blades extended, the operating cylinders and pistons can be seen, along with some of the machinery under the walkway.
And finally, an overhead view.
If anybody would like to add pictures of their own non-revenue equipment to this thread, you're more than welcome.
Wayne
Such as...a 250 ton Bucyrus-Erie wreck crane. I picked up this one on the "used" table at the LHS. I think it's by either Bachmann or Model Power. I added a few details to backdate it a bit, then built the boom car to go with it from an Athearn 50' flatcar. The flatcar got a scratchbuilt wooden deck, plus some low sides with equipment boxes and a small carbody for tool storage, built from styrene.
or a 120 ton Industrial Brownhoist version. This one, also riding the Lowbanks turntable, is a modified Tichy model. The boom idler car was built from an Athearn 40' flatcar, modified similarily to 166A.
This American derrick is an unpowered Walthers model that's been modified to make it appear similar to a crane where I used to work. The large reel on the side of the boom is for a magnet cable, not yet installed. The boom car, another Athearn 50'-er, has a wooden deck and new low sides.
Jordan spreader 156 is making a rare mainline appearance in Elfrida, rare because the wing plows, even unextended, tend to hit all sorts of lineside details. Besides ditching and roadbed grooming, this spreader is a key piece of snow-fighting equipment. Its well-kept appearance is testament to the weather-proof qualities of the layout room.
Here she is at rest, just outside of the carshops at Lowbanks. Too wide to fit through the doorway, her usual parking spot is behind the loco shop, just north of the crane runway.
With the left wing-plow blades extended, the operating cylinders and pistons can be seen, along with some of the machinery under the walkway.
And finally, an overhead view.
If anybody would like to add pictures of their own non-revenue equipment to this thread, you're more than welcome.
Wayne
, FANTASTIC JOB on those cranes:thumb: :thumb: the Jordan spreader is just SLAP AWESOME!!!
OUTSTANDING WORK, AS ALWAYS WAYNE!!!:thumb: :thumb: :thumb: 
By the way, it's the 26 that's the so-called bad luck engine. For the uninformed, this loco derailed a couple of times during our last get-together, mostly due to a careless switchman
