There is a lot of literature and documentation about various artefacts
in the railway area. But I haven't really found anything about the
cranes used by and around the railways - reasonably a central function
of most of the marshalling yards once up in the time…

Have anyone any ideas where to find relevant reading about cranes?

Anyway, did find this old nice one in the railway museum of Kristianstad
in south-east of Sweden, muscle powered and presumably used for cole.

http://www.abc.se/~m10901/RAIL/kristianstadkran.html

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