Finnieston Crane
Giant cantilever crane that once loaded steam locomotives onto ships, now a riverside icon.
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This guide to the Finnieston Crane in Glasgow follows the sculptor George Wyllie in the spring of nineteen eighty-seven, when he hung a life-size steam locomotive made of straw from this silent giant over the Clyde. It reaches back to the Springburn works whose engines were hauled through the streets to this quay for export, and to a city asking what had become of its heavy industry. Best heard on the riverside walkway, looking up at the jib.
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