Go to this link…
http://www.trainpix.com/BNSF/VIDEO/BIGLOAD4.HTM
BNSFrailfan.
http://165.91.110.43/trains/NewBNSF/PTRA.htm
Look here for the very first movement, fresh off the docks.
Ed[:D]
Wonder where else it got stuck Ed?..Eventually it will get here![:D][^][^]
We Will Deliver…
oh, wait, thats the other guys…
It gets there when it gets there!
No, thats the US Postal Service…
Well, just wait, they will get it there sometime…
What I can promise you is it came out of the docks, and we got it into the BNSF crews hands, not only on time, but ahead of schedule!
Ed[:D]
I wounder why they didn’t let the UP transport it?
UP is not privy to the BNSF (ATSF or C&S/FW&D…later BN) clearance data on the most direct routes between Houston & Denver. They would have had to go the long way around with this rascal. trackage rights gets you only so far. Above Amarillo, ATSF had the better route for high-wides to Pueblo. I wonder what crisis will be encountered through there while they crawl northward along C&S’s old corkscrew due to the current of traffic? (At least they now avoid downtown Trinidad, CO)…roadmasters and trainmasters with heartburn?
How many SAPOHS (Stop And Procede On Hand Signals) I wonder are in their train orders?
Square hole, bigger round peg…I think I can, I think I can…Aw heck, RAMMING SPEED![(-D][(-D][(-D]
Whoo good looking engine. Hope to see some of them in Nebraska in early May [:o)][:p]
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Originally posted by edblysard
…Someone was asking on another thread of what specifically HAS to go by rail…I’d say this qualifies. Believe many highway bridges could not take 500 plus tons {plus trailer load}, etc…even if it would fit through many problem areas. Hopefully enough realization will occur before all rail lines are done away with in the future.
what was that it was pulling i was having troubles seeing it?
All it tells me is that i need to download a plugin then it sends me to a netscape site which sends me to quicktime sand it wants me to download quicktime, which i just updated last week is there another plugin i need, or is there somewhere else i can see this?
thanks
Me to. What was it I could not open it either?
A big cylinderical load on a big schenable car.
What is it though.
whats with the caboose i thought they wernt used antmore.?
It’s a very large chemical reactor vessel for a petroleum refinery.
The cabeese are part of the consist associated with the move, and not with the railroad. A Schnabel move like this takes a large crew (not train crew). Note the cupola in front of the car (crew member up top looking for vertical clearance and hazards) and bay windows behind it (side clearance). There is also a crew in the doghouses on the Schnabel controlling it, because the load can be moved sideways on the car through a set of hydraulics–these are VERY sophisticated pieces of rolling stock. Look closely on the linked photos at the move’s website for the meet down below Temple, where it appears they have swung the reactor to the side away from the train in the hole:
It playes on Windows Media Player. You can download it for free on Microsoft.com.
http://www.microsoft.com
Then goto: Windows Media Player.
BNSFrailfan.
UPDATE:
The rascal pulled into Monument, CO last night…55 miles south of its final destination.
drephpe: Great photos through the links in your post…Really enjoyed.
Still there at noon - Move uder the cover of darkness?
Interesting video,enjoyed watching it.
Wasn’t that supposed to get to final destination today,
and be unloaded tommorow ?
It showed-up yesterday. TV news media had fun with it after Brighton Blvd. (Colo. Hwy 2) was closed for three days to unload it and get it into the refinery.