06-12-2015, 03:47 PM
BR60103 Wrote:Mr Fixit Wrote:Did you manage to find out just how heavy the transformer was and what size crane will be used to transfer it from rail to road?
Mark
Don't they just have a half a dozen guys with crowbars pry the thing across?
The ones they unloaded near Palmer Lake when the transformer substation was upgraded were unloaded there on the spur by a rail crane onto a large cribwork of railroad ties that was employed to keep it level and enable it to be raised with huge hydraulic jacks to the height necessary to allow the lowboy to be positioned properly under it. Then it was gradually lowered onto the trailer and secured, towed a couple of miles to the site, and the process was reversed, with a mobile crane now on hand to achieve the final positioning on the pre-constructed concrete foundation.
Somewhere, I may still have the trackside photos I took.
The whole process took two days, and was fantastic to watch as a special team handles moving these things, and they worked like ten men with one mind.