Moving the 570 ton hydrotreator reactor...

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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…Believe the picture on page 22, August TRAINS showing moving the 570 ton hydrotreator reactor is one and the same that was off loaded from sea transportation to Ed’s railroad to start the journey to Colorado earlier this past Spring.

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Hi Quentin,
Yup, thats the one.

Look at

http://perroux.us/pages/reactor.html

for a lot more info, and

http://165.91.110.43/trains/NewBNSF/PTRA.htm

for photos of the locomotive just before its first revenue move…

Ed

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Ed, Thanks for the links!

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…Wow…What a detailed web site Ed…I’ll have to take some time a bit later and go through it…That was quite an operation to get that mass from Texas to Colorado…After it crossed the ocean too…Don’t believe it could have been transported in one piece on the highway no matter how special of equipment they would have come up with…For starters, many of the bridges would not have held that much weight.

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We saw the Schnabel car go through Milwaukee a few years ago. It is a sight you do not forget!
Dave Nelson

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…We had a Westinghouse and later an ABB Transformer plant here in Muncie for some years and their product was transported out of here via the Schnabel type car and of course in a special train and it sure looked like what it was…a very special movement to transport a very heavy piece of equipment.

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Ed:
Was that your own office parked next to BNSF 7687?

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The blue ones on the right are my work office, (actually, thats my engineers office), I switch the off of the yard lead they are on …and the black Magnum on the left in the parking lot is my “other” office[:D]

I will know when we have another reactor to ship…when the Schnable shows back up…there aint to many places you can park one of thoses, so we will stick it on the lead where the BNSF locomotive is in the photos…

Ed