Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1913 — MOVING LOCOMOTIVE IN THE AIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MOVING LOCOMOTIVE IN THE AIR.

In the locomotive repair shop of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway at Transcona, which is just across the Red river from Winnipeg, is a 120-ton overhead crane which is used to lift locomotives into the air from one ’ *■ . ■> ■ '

track, carry them over other locomotives and lower them to another track. The locomotive shown lifted into the air weighs 80 tons, and the crane ae com plished its task with the utmost oare.—Popular Mechanics. • * * : J- - -*