Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1902 — POWERFUL DERRICK. [ARTICLE]

POWERFUL DERRICK.

Big Machine Being Manufactured for Monon Shops. One of the most powerful derricks in the country is being completed for the Monon, to be used at Lafayette, by the Industrial Works, Bay City, Mich. It is equipped with a double acting engine and has a lifting capacity of 100,000 pounds. It will be stationed at the shops and will be used in cleaning up wrecks. It will be possible with this derrick to lift any of the small engines now in the service. It will come very near raising up one of the “battleship” engines. With this big derrick a bad wreck can be cleared up in a short time.