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Rail Maintenance & Test Cars

Name
Type
Year Built
Builder
Notes

Burlington Northern #BNX-54-0046
Ballast Tamper
1975
Builder: Canron Company
Self-propelled track alignment machine; Model JRA-JDG Electromatic Mark 1.

Illinois Central #30
Dynamometer Car
1943
Builder: Illinois Central
Jointly owned by Illinois Central and University of Illinois (which provided equipment) for testing steam locomotive pulling power; instrument came from wooden 1907 car.

St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt") #MW 95589
Wedge Snowplow
1913
Builder: Baldwin
Originally a Vanderbilt tender to Rock Island 2-8-2 #2572; rebuilt in mid-1920s to ¦loaf of bread² water tank design; converted to plow in 1957; conveyed to St. Louis Southwestern when Rock Island was broken up and its lines were sold.

Union Pacific #BC-33
Locomotive Crane
1984
Builder: Pyke
Self-propelled; 18-ton capacity.

Union Pacific #SDA2
Track Spiker
1981
Builder: Fairmont
Used to drive spikes into railroad ties to secure rails; Fairmont model W96B.

Union Pacific #THC12M
Tie-Handling Crane
ca. 1970
Builder: Kershaw
Crane is model TC/C3.

Union Pacific #90081
Rotary Snowplow
1966
Biggest, heaviest rotary plow made, with 12-foot cutting wheel and 3,000-hp engine to turn it using diesel-electric drive; weighs 376,400 lbs. fully loaded.

US Army #226
Locomotive Crane
1953
Builder: Orton
Self-propelled; 25-ton capacity.