Railpictures.ca - Paul O'Shell Photo: CN 50397 Industrial Brownhoist 250 ton wrecker, s/n 12368 built in 1957. It was originally assigned to the GTW in Battle Creek, MI. according to a July 1960 CN crane roster. It sits here in the cold snow covered Kamloops Yard in January of 2003 nearing the end of its useful life at CN. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

CN 50397 Industrial Brownhoist 250 ton wrecker, s/n 12368 built in 1957. It was originally assigned to the GTW in Battle Creek, MI. according to a July 1960 CN crane roster. It sits here in the cold snow covered Kamloops Yard in January of 2003 nearing the end of its useful life at CN.

Caption: CN 50397 Industrial Brownhoist 250 ton wrecker, s/n 12368 built in 1957. It was originally assigned to the GTW in Battle Creek, MI. according to a July 1960 CN crane roster. It sits here in the cold snow covered Kamloops Yard in January of 2003 nearing the end of its useful life at CN.

Photographer:	Paul O'Shell [439] (more) (contact)
Date:	01/16/2003 (search)
Railway:	Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks:	CN 50397 (search)
Train Symbol:	Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS:	Kamloops Yard (search)
City/Town:	Kamloops (search)
Province:	British Columbia (search)
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4 Comments

CN MLW FAN

March 25, 2017 at 8:00 pm

Any idea when this crane was scrapped?
Paul O'Shell

March 29, 2017 at 6:49 pm

I’m not so sure the CN 50397 has been scrapped. We will have a guy out in the Kamloops area in the near future and will get him to do a little scouting to see what’s going on with the wreckers that were once assigned there.
Jeremy MacPherson

March 30, 2017 at 1:24 am

That would be great, I thought the only one left was 50387 at the Alberta Railway Museum.
Paul O'Shell

January 5, 2021 at 2:04 pm

It would appear that CN 50397 (1st) in my above photo has been scrapped.
Ex-DM&IR X-16, an American model 830 DE locomotive crane, serial number J-3487, built in 1958 was renumbered to CN 50397 (2nd) and was on the Work Equipment roster until 2010. I have a photo of this second CN 50397 meeting its end in a scrap yard in October of 2010.

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