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WPMW 90 built in 2-1952. A self-propelled 50-ton capacity locomotive crane, this machine was mainly used for bridge and other maintenance of way work. Built by Industrial Brownhoist of Bay City, Michigan, it is a Model DE-50 crane. Donated by the Union Pacific to the FRRS. The crane is not operational, the main-drive clutch is bad.
INDUSTRIAL BROWNHOIST
Industrial Works was founded in 1873 at Bay City, MI. They built their first railroad
wrecking crane for the Chicago & Western Illinois RR in 1883. From there the company went
on to become one of the largest producers of rail cranes in the United States. Industrial Works
merged with the Brown Hoisting Machinery Co. (Brownhoist) on September 26, 1927 to become
Industrial Brownhoist Corp. with headquarters at Cleveland, OH. The formal transfer of assets
to the new corporation took place on October 26, 1927. In 1929 the McMyler-Interstate Co. was
merged into Industrial Brownhoist. Two years later in 1931 the Cleveland plant was closed and
all crane manufacturing was consolidated at Bay City. Evidence indicates that the Bay City and
Cleveland plants continued to use their own numbering system until the 1931 consolidation.
After this the Brownhoist numbering system was used. American Hoist & Derrick bought out
Industrial Brownhoist in 1960 and continued to build rail cranes at Bay City until 1983.1
[1] DOCPLAYER. (2012). INDUSTRIAL BROWNHOIST. Retrieved October 14, 2019, from http://docplayer.net/36354169-Industrial-brownhoist.html
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