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Now this will brighten up any dingy wreck site! QNS&L 1200, a Bucyrus Erie 250 ton capacity wrecker sits majestically outside the locomotive & car repair shop in Sept-Iles waiting for its next assisgnment. 1200's twin sits on the other end of the line in Labrador City.
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Caption: Now this will brighten up any dingy wreck site! QNS&L 1200, a Bucyrus Erie 250 ton capacity wrecker sits majestically outside the locomotive & car repair shop in Sept-Iles waiting for its next assisgnment. 1200's twin sits on the other end of the line in Labrador City.

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Paul O'Shell [526] (more) (contact)
Date: 04/14/2004 (search)
Railway: Quebec North Shore & Labrador (search)
Reporting Marks: QNSL 1200 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Sept-Iles / Wacouna Sub. (search)
City/Town: Sept-Iles (search)
Province: Quebec (search)
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11 Comments
  1. mrdanno4050
    October 16, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    Amazing how those old cranes tend to survive so long!

  2. poshell
    October 18, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    The American & Ohio Locomotive Crane Co. in Bucyrus, Ohio continues to rebuild railway cranes giving them additional life beyond their already long service years. It is not uncommon to see cranes built in the 40′s and 50′s still in service today. I will post a few more photos of some older cranes as well as recent rebuilds. The technology in railway cranes has changed very little in the last 50 years.

  3. Chris van der Heide
    November 23, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    Interesting little support car made from a cut down ore gondola!

  4. Paul O'Shell
    January 17, 2017 at 2:38 pm

    QNS&L 1200 is a Bucyrus Erie 250 ton, sn 94114, built in 1952.

  5. TMike
    June 19, 2026 at 5:17 pm

    Does this monster still exist?. Being based in remote parts of Quebe-I would expect the railroad keeps it operational.

  6. Paul O'Shell
    June 19, 2026 at 8:37 pm

    I wish I could answer that question for you Mike, but like me, all my former contacts at QNS&L have long been retired, so I do not have access to current information as I once did.
    I would like to think QNS&L 1200 & QNS&L 1201 are still operational but at 74 years old in 2026 they could likely be razor blades. :-(

  7. TMike
    June 21, 2026 at 6:25 pm

    I dunno, QNS&L is really isolated in some areas. It might take contractors days to get equipment to a derailment site,I guess the railway has a plan. Maybe someone can give us an update.

  8. Paul O'Shell
    June 21, 2026 at 6:27 pm

    I’ve got some sleuths looking into it. :-)

  9. Paul O'Shell
    June 21, 2026 at 9:08 pm

    Confirmed by a reliable source at QNS&L that the cranes were retired and scrapped. :-(

  10. TMike
    June 22, 2026 at 11:53 am

    Too bad. But they were isolated on a rail line that was on its own-no connections to another railroad so I guess it was inevitable. I found pix of a derailment in 2014-a loco went into a river. A huge 700 ton crane was dismantled-moved to the site, reassenbled,and fished the drowned loco out of the river. In the winter! Quite a job Unfortunately the engineer was killed in the accident.

  11. Paul O'Shell
    June 22, 2026 at 11:59 am

    Here is sister crane QNS&L 1201 in Labrador City, NL that I snapped back on November 1, 2005 …
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/197431498@N07/52638310557/in/album-72177720305397744
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/197431498@N07/52638310542/in/album-72177720305397744

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