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Steam crane

Steam crane

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A steam crane is a crane powered by a steam engine. It may be fixed or mobile and, if mobile, it may run on rail tracks, caterpillar tracks, road wheels, or be mounted on a barge.[citation needed] It usually has a vertical boiler placed at the back so that the weight of the boiler counterbalances the weight of the jib and load.

Railway steam crane, with vertical cross-tube boiler, at Summerlee Heritage Park
Fairbairn steam crane in Bristol
Derelict Smith (Rodley) crane, on the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal

They were very common as railway breakdown cranes, and several have been preserved on heritage railways in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]

Manufacturers

See also

Steam powered Overhead crane from 1875

References

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