 | Something besides the broken glass brought this twin 8V-71 Detroit Diesel engined beast down. I nearly missed this one on a Charlottesville jog pass by. Identified as a WABCO 252FT elevated scraper, these mammoth machines today are rather obscure (no pun intended). WABCO, short for Westinghouse Air Brake Company whch ran a heavy equipment division at one time, but the design has roots with R.G. LeTourneau. The value in this relic may be as a donor keeping others operational. I wonder if some bank lending asset ledger records serial GR-47106-CPA17-L and its whereabouts– or is it be reclaimed by the same earth that it toiled to transform. [ GPX ] |
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