Two "Big Hooks" (EL on the left and LV on the right) have been called in to rescue an EL derrick that apparently rolled over on the super-elevated curve at Owego while cleaning up a derailment (IIRC). The recalcitrant derrick's boom is being placed on a flat car under the watchful eyes of perhaps a few managers? The weather isn't helping matters any...

Photographed by John Barlow, 1970.
Added to the photo archive by John Barlow, March 7, 2019.
Railroad: Erie Lackawanna.

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