Specialized Rail Gear from a Grove TM880
Grove TM880 HI Rail Gear
- Consists of a front dolly and a rear drive
- Pony motor drives
- Converted to hydraulic
- Has a pin bowl (pictured), smaller than that of a railcar
- AUS (fabrication company) built custom nipples to fit in the pin bowl (similar design to a railcar)
- They had the capacity to move a 120,000 pound crane on rail PULLING a gondola up an 8% GRADE