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Description: This steam-powered wrecking crane was part of a small fleet of cards designed solely to maintain the railway -- to remove wrecks and to lay, replace, and resurface the track. The Central Railroad of New Jersey #5 steam derrick was built in 1918 and spent most of its working life in northeastern...
Description: Railroad track workers used double crow bars to straighten tracks and other uses.
"One day we were straightening the tracks. We had crowbars which we put under the track. At a signal we would all heave together, straightening the tracks an inch at a time. The sweat poured down our faces in...
Description: Railroad track workers move gravel to the area between the ties with a gravel fork. The fork has tongs about a half inch apart.
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Description: Railroad track workers used these tongs to carry railroad ties and lift them into place.
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