It was designed to be the centerpiece of large-scale, mixed-use development. The building was opened in 2010 as part of a new development called Downtown Dubai. The primary structure is reinforced concrete and some of the structural steel for the building originated from the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin, the former East German parliament. Ĭonstruction of the Burj Khalifa began in 2004, with the exterior completed five years later in 2009. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, or just over half a mile) and a roof height (excluding antenna, but including a 242.6 m spire ) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world since its topping out in 2009, supplanting Taipei 101, the previous holder of that status.

The Burj Khalifa (known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration in 2010) is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. You can read more about the model as well as the prototype at SuperK’s Technic Center and the Eurobricks forum.Reinforced concrete, steel, and aluminium Lego fan ‘Superkoala’ built a working model of a Сокол-80M crane using Lego Technic. Seen at work in a similarly snow covered railway yard. The boom and pivot units are the same design as the Сокол-80M tracked crane. Universal railway crane “Сокол 80.01” has a lifting capacity of 80 tons for the laying of РШР track panels and turnouts without the removal of the contact wire, and the construction of bridges. The boom and pivot units are the same design as the Сокол-80 railway crane.Īnd here is the Сокол 80.01 railway crane variant. Produced by OJSC Sokol in the city of Samara (formerly the Kuibyshev Mechanical Plant No. The “Сокол-80” crane is designed as a mobile vehicle of large carrying capacity for railway emergencies, and it can also be used to move heavy loads in off-road conditions and in hard-to-reach areas.

The crane itself is a Сокол 80M – which translated to “Falcon”.

The end ramps are then lowered, allowing the crane to drive down to the ground and through the railway yard, where the crane is used to lift narrow gauge diesel locomotive TU2-155 off a road truck and onto the rails. The crane arrives at the Tyosovo Railway Museum in Novgorod Oblast on the back of a railway flat wagon. I’ve seen many interesting pieces of Russian heavy machinery, but this is a new one – a crawler crane that can be moved by rail.

80tn crane lifting chart