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Route 362 is a road coming out of the west end of Wellsboro. On this road you'll drive past the Country Club and the turnoffs for the PA Grand Canyon and the local airport.
Eventually you'll pass the turnoff for the Darling Run trailhead area (for the rail-trail), and come to the junction of Rt. 362 and Route 6.
With the scorching summer of 1976 long gone, RT 3474 (SP) on route 51A stops in Sevenoaks Road, Green Street Green on this bitterly cold but bright Friday 10th December 1976. 3K-10.
Open-top RTs are not as common as open-top Routemasters, but the format looks good on this RT which has been converted, seen here at Imber Church. Originally a green Country area vehicle, it was de-roofed in an accident in the 1970s when owned by Grays Garage Sports & Social Club!
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The coal fired Manchester Ship canal crane named 'The 250 Ton Crane' Built by N.V. Werf Gusto at Schiedam, Netherlands in 1937.
BOILER RT Scotch.
Built 1937 by Lilybank Boiler Works at Glasgow.
Engine Built by Ashworth & Parker Ltd. at Bury For electric drive to crane, one 75 KW, one 40 KW. Plus: two small Ashworth & Parker engines on dynamo & air compressor; Various pumps by Drysdale, G. & J. Weir and Hayward Tyler; Warping drums and deck winches by Clarke Chapman.
The 250 Ton Crane was used for lifting lock gate & other Heavy Machinery on the ship canal, and was last in use in the 1990's
She has since been laid up at Runcorn and is now seen under tow by GT Victory to a new home in Newcastle.
UPDATE: 30/6/22 Photos have appeared on social media showing the destruction of the 250ton crane. The proposed project having failed.