I don't have too many photos of this crane, as its location makes it difficult to get a shot where there's not a lot of unrelated things in sight.
Originally, it was to be one of two in the casthouse of a blast furnace which I was building. When I realised that I had neither the money nor the space to complete the project (I was working from blueprints of the real one, which, at the time, was supposedly the largest one in North America), I decided to make the crane a composite of several in the mill where I was working. I built it from sheet styrene, with basswood shapes for the angle bracing and other structural shapes, including the handrails. The only commercial parts used were the bearing hubs on the wheels (from a 1/32" scale Russian tank), the wheels (old brass wheelsets), and the sheaves on the hook. All of the motors, gearboxes and pillow blocks were built-up from sheet styrene, as was the magnet. The crane runway is recent work, made from Evergreen styrene structural shapes, and built on-site. The access stairway housing is basswood corrugated sheet, left over from the blast furnace project.
Wayne