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01-20-2007, 09:30 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| Just a small sized truck I saw in my neighborhood today Yes its small sized..... if youre a giant!!!!! This truck was transporting a 250 ton steam turbine from the Port of Los Angeles to a new power plant near Riverside. It was parked not to far from my house. Its only moved at nighttime as to not interfere with traffic. The transporter uses two prime movers in a push pull configuration. The "payload" is held in place by four "quadrants", each of which is an eight axle, 4 wheel/axle setup. That means there is 32 wheels per quadrant, 128 total for the truck. These are the first set of pictures.
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01-20-2007, 09:30 PM
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01-20-2007, 09:32 PM
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01-20-2007, 09:33 PM
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01-20-2007, 09:33 PM
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01-20-2007, 09:34 PM
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01-20-2007, 10:02 PM
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| Pretty big unit a pusher and a puller. Couldn't have gone very far bridges and power lines would be low  |
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01-20-2007, 10:17 PM
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01-20-2007, 10:54 PM
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| Minister of Whoopass   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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| Very detailed work sys.... Very thoughough...
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01-21-2007, 04:24 AM
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 | an impressive series of shots but not of anything too special, what is special is seeing two steam engines with no more than 15hp between them pulling a 230 ton trailer up a 1 in 12 gradiant on a grass surface..........
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01-21-2007, 05:36 AM
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| Pretty big I guess, but you should see some of our road trains down here.
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01-21-2007, 06:03 AM
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| Pretty cool Syscom. Nice shots. |
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01-21-2007, 09:07 AM
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 | Cool syscom, that is pretty damn big. You should get some pics of them Wildcat.
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01-21-2007, 09:23 AM
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01-21-2007, 01:03 PM
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| aka Dickcheese  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Impressive. Steam engine destined for a powerplant?
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