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The Derrick on its Tracks

Black and white image of a piece of equipment in a quarry pit on tracks - The device is hoisting a load of supplies onto a railway cart at the edge of the quarry.

1910

Source: Marjorie Cropp, Salute to Oxford, page 55, Beachville District Museum Reference Library

This image shows the derrick in action in 1910. The boom arm lifts full buckets of stone into a waiting freight car at the north edge of the quarry wall. The jacks swinging on either side from the cross beam and legs keep the derrick from tipping. When a blast went off in the pit, a cable pulled the derrick back on the track.