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HEAVIER LOADS * USA - How do you move a half-million-pound transformer?
Very carefully !!! - Machinery from Korea moves through Harford on way to Peach Bottom
Harford County,MAR,USA -The Baltimore Sun -31 July 2009: -- The huge gray metal object stands 27 feet tall on an oversize flatbed with 144 wheels, weighs 431,000 pounds and is hauled by a lumbering beast of a truck that looks like something out of a Stephen King novel... All this week it's been roaming the darkened roads of Harford County, drawing crowds of gawkers for its nocturnal procession to the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania. Last evening, it made the delicate crossing of Deer Creek on Route 136, which was reinforced in advance to bear the crushing weight... The object of this attention is an enormous transformer - a device that increases the voltage of nuclear-generated power before it is sent out into the electric power grid that supplies Maryland and nearby states... The night's objective: to move the transformer another 4 miles west on its 27-mile, eight-day overland journey - most of it along Maryland roads... It's an effort that requires the co-operation of Exelon officials, heavy-hauling specialists, utility workers, highway engineers, police and others. The move has been months in the planning, with practically every step choreographed... (Baltimore Sun photo by Gene Sweeney Jr. / July 29, 2009 - A half-million-pound transformer moves from Havre de Grace toward its destination at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant)Labels: larger loads
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