Rail Maintenance & Test Cars
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BURLINGTON NORTHERN #BNX-54-0046
Ballast Tamper 1975
Builder: Canron Company
Self-propelled track alignment machine; Model JRA-JDG Electromatic Mark 1.
GREAT NORTHERN #2100
Steam Locomotive 1923
Builder: Baldwin
Tender
Vanderbilt-type tender from steam locomotive; 15,000-gallon capacity; last
used as maintenance water car.
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 bread" 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.
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