Very cool catch! I love driving these--forklift, variable-reach, rough-terrain.. You can crab sideways, 4 wheel steering, 4-wheel drive....
We saw all sorts of odd loads thru Cheyenne... This loco is now in Monte Vista, CO: I have dozens of loads in my albums....
Jerry, that's quite a display. Do you service the Anniston Depot, or were you just trans-shipping those loads?
you must have got some good noise right there nice shots evoryone heres mine IN cove PA and we drove past enola after the trainshow in maryland and they were just heading out of enola after 2 weeks
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina Mississippi Power contracted with KCS to deliver a humongous transformer from north Georgia as a replacement for one that had been drowned by over 15 feet of water at Gulfport's Plant Watson. Here you see an MPCO crew setting up to transfer the transformer onto an equally humongous truck for delivery to the plant 5 miles away. What is sad is that this picture was taken less than 300 feet north of an in-service KCS siding that goes directly to the Plant Watson facility and less than 15 feet from where this transformer will be set. However, there is a wooden trestle half-way in between that can not support the loaded drop-center car. It supports this locomotive 3 times a each week, but it can't handle the estimated 300+ ton loaded car. BTW, the hopper next to the loco and one that was behind the drop-center, but had been dropped a few hundred feet back, were loaded with sand as protection in case the transformer shifted in transit.
In a slight twist, here are two GE fuel tanks being transported on a highway truck. It's a larger load than I would have thought.
As the transportation representative for an oil refinery, I was envolved in getting this moved from El Paso to Dallas. Routing was SP-ELP-UP-Dallas. A very large portable (?) boiler................... Here is a second one. We brought these two LPG sausages into ELP from Cincinatti Ohio.
