Alpine crane job on constricted site

A Liebherr LR 11000 crawler crane has installed a 176-tonne railway bridge not far from the fashionable spa and holiday resort of St. Moritz in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. This, the most powerful crawler crane in Switzerland, belongs to logistics and haulage contractor Emil Egger AG and did the job at an altitude of almost 2,000 metres in the Alps – with an unusual set- up configuration due to the lack of available space. A total of three aged truss bridges of the Rhaetian Railway were replaced by the Liebherr crane. Read More