I found this color 1960's era photograph from the former
Western Pacific Railroad at my Link page
Fallen Flags.Org, which is located to the right of your
computer screen at www.rr-fallenflags.org
Although steam locomotives were long gone and very obsolete
on North American railroads by the post war 1950's, purpose
built heavy equipment like the steam powered heavy crane
used for clearing up train accident derailments, held on in to
the 1960's and some cases, the 1970's on many railroads.
Today, most railroads do derailment clean up work with
contract firms such as Hulcher Rail Services, using modern
heavy equipment and mobile cranes.
A number of steam cranes and derricks, can be seen today
at various railroad museums around the nation.
Thanks.
Eddie K.
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