Seen at work in a similarly snow covered railway yard. The boom and pivot units are the same design as the Сокол-80M tracked crane. Universal railway crane “Сокол 80.01” has a lifting capacity of 80 tons for the laying of РШР track panels and turnouts without the removal of the contact wire, and the construction of bridges. The boom and pivot units are the same design as the Сокол-80 railway crane.Īnd here is the Сокол 80.01 railway crane variant. Produced by OJSC Sokol in the city of Samara (formerly the Kuibyshev Mechanical Plant No. The “Сокол-80” crane is designed as a mobile vehicle of large carrying capacity for railway emergencies, and it can also be used to move heavy loads in off-road conditions and in hard-to-reach areas. The crane itself is a Сокол 80M – which translated to “Falcon”. The end ramps are then lowered, allowing the crane to drive down to the ground and through the railway yard, where the crane is used to lift narrow gauge diesel locomotive TU2-155 off a road truck and onto the rails. The crane arrives at the Tyosovo Railway Museum in Novgorod Oblast on the back of a railway flat wagon. I’ve seen many interesting pieces of Russian heavy machinery, but this is a new one – a crawler crane that can be moved by rail.
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