Derreck

Derreck is a Type Z 250 ton Industrial Brownhoist steam powered Railroad derreck crane owned by the Knoxville & Asheville Railroad. His job is to lift wrecked locomotives and rolling stock back onto the rails whenever there's an accident.

  Derreck  
 * Full Name: Derreck Brownhoist.
 * Number: CR-143
 * Builder: Industrial Brownhoist, Bay City, Michigan USA
 * Build date: 1948
 * Crane Model: Type Z 250 ton crane
 * Previous Owner(s): none.
 * Weight: 250 tons
 * Status: Operational
 * Age: 48 (in the series), 72 (today)

Biography
Derreck was built by Industrial Brownhoist in 1948 for the Knoxville & Asheville Railroad Company to help clean up train wrecks, which thankfully were very rare on the K&A. But this gave Derreck a lot of freetime in which he decided to take up comedy to pass the time. By the 1990s, Derreck was retired from service when the railroad bought a new diesel powered crane and he was placed in storage at the K&A Palmer Roundhouse in Knoxville with Smokey and Snowy.

When the railroad re-activated the Steam Program in the 1990s, Derreck found himself with morre work to do since the railroad was short of a crane. Nowadays, he's seen doing track repair and other odd jobs.

Trivia

 * Derreck is based on a Industrialist Brownhoist Type Z 250 ton steam powered derreck crane.
 * Like Snowy, Derreck speaks with a megaphone, a homage to the 1989 David Mitton series TUGS.