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(Created: 29 Jul 2002)
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ROAD LOADS

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Gigantic highway and off-road trucks and trailers

HEAVY HAULAGE
and we mean HEAVY, here!

[similar to railroad Schnabel
and other GIANT railroad freight cars]

BIG LOADS - BIG PICTURES!]
(and it got even more so on 29 Jul 02 - see Miller Transfer, below!)

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in addition to the main Road Load page, et seq..

NOTE: I regret that some of my internal links refuse to work; if they don't, please click "Back" and scroll.

INDEX

On the main Road Load page:
Road/Highway Schnabels - material moved from main RR Schnabel Car page,
MOVING LOCO #833 - moved to Road Loads page 4 (on sbiii.com) 16 Mar 2005
MOVING COKE DRUMS in ALBERTA

On the Road Load page 2:
MOVING THE GLENWOOD TANKS,
Road Load Models (moved to this page 01 Mar 05),
Mammoet Mammoth Road Loads, plus
just scroll away.

On this Road Load Page 3:
Curved Girders.
Danly Press. (04 Sep 09)
Miller Transfer Rig.
Moving Big Muskie's Bucket.
Road Load Models (moved from cont. page 2 on 01 Mar 05).
Road Load Miscellany.
Bay Crane.
W. J. Casey.

On the Road Load page 4 (on sbiii.com):
Moving Big Boy (Loco) #4023.

On the main RR Schnabel Car page:
scroll away, plus these specifics -
Schnabel Diagram.
Schnabel Car Loading Technique.
Schnabel References.
Road/Highway Schnabels - moved to this page 16 Mar 00.

On the Schnabel Continuation Page 0:
36-wheel 880-Ton Schnabel Car(s).
Mammoet/ETARCO Mammoth Rail Loads.

On the Schnabel Continuation Page 2:
Scroll away, plus these specifics -
Model Schnabel and other Giant Cars.
Schnabel Miscellany.

Something has to lift these giant loads; see Big Cranes.

Jump to SB,III's RAILROAD Page for a goodly set of RR links

and to SB,III's MODEL RAILROAD Page for a goodly set of model RR links (yea, verily, forsooth!).

Highway and Off-Road Variants of
SCHNABEL and other
giant RAILROAD CARS

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If this subject interests you, you must also see Tom Daspit's site, linked on page 1!

* - Spelling of the Name: SCHNABEL vs. SCHNABLE - "Schnabel" is the KORREKT spelling! It is the German word for "beak", which I originally thought referred to the beak-shaped loading arms, but now know was the name of the German inventor of the design ca. 1930 or so. I don't know where or when I started using "Schnable", but it was wrong and I don't mind admitting my error.

If I ever find my original CE and Krupp materials (referred to below) and they show "SCHNABLE" (however unlikely), I'll have to correct this back again!

ABB Schnabel Car
ABB Image from R.I.C.A. (see below)

ABB Power Generation, Inc., Schnabel Car with what appears to be a Reactor or Boiler Load.

Then here is the Krupp-built 36-wheel CEBX 800 toting a 35.080m (111' 9³/₄") reactor vessel on 05 Jan 1991 in Saskatoon, Sasketchewan (Canada); it is a composite panorama made up of six (6) or seven (7) photos:

These railcars are shown here as teasers; see RR Schnabel Cars, et seq., for more on these rail equivalents of giant road vehicles.

Road/Highway Schnabels

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Hoo, boy! I got back (16 Jun 00) from a run to Ohio and guess what I found on the way out at a weigh station (actually, filling a weigh station from one end to the other) on Route I-70 westbound on 11 Jun 00? A gigantic Danly press on a Trans National Freight Systems Heavy Haulage Division BIG flatbed - pix and details to follow (when I find the photos, now that I have a flatbed scanner).

Well, in early Sep 2009, I got a call from a gentleman who knew the Danlys and worked for Danly years back who wanted to see these pix for a memorial to Danly, so I hunted around until I found the set of pix, taken on a trip to see surviving boxcab locomotives. I was going not-less-than the posted 65mph when I spotted this rig on a miserably-dull, grey, overcast day and slammed to a stop on the margin, just past the station. Running across the margin and back to the station, here is my first view "up close" (and even this shot had to be artificially lightened to see anything): (04 Sep 09)

Now, cropping it a lot and lightening it a bit more and we see this:

Running (remember, my car was sitting on the shoulder of I-70!) across the parking lot, I got a lot closer but all I could squeeze in was the press and the tail end of the multi-axle trailer:

Then, running alongside, here's the press and the low-bed:

Alongside the tractor (whew!):

Finally (miles and miles and miles!), out ahead of the rig, looking back to infinity:

From the sheer size of it, I'd guess that was the head of a 1,000- to 2,000-ton Danly.

I had completely forgotten for a year that on 19 Jul 01 at ~17:30, rolling along s/b at the prescribed 65 per on Route 83N some 45 miles south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I barely had time to pull over and slam to a stop, panicking my German passengers, who were kind enough to wait while I jumped out and shot this rig:

That's a BIG Miller Transfer & Rigging Co. low-boy parked alongside the road, probably awaiting escort and light traffic hours. I didn't have time to take more detailed photos and couldn't back up far enough to get the whole rig in a single shot, even with a wide-angle lens! With the tractor, that's 19 axles!; Miller's Special Projects - Superloads page says they can "ship cargo weighing over one million pounds".

DHS Diecast Collectables, Inc., of Berea, Ohio, (see below) offers a similar* rig in 1:48 from Hartsmith Models (England), Miller Transfer Trailer SMT320-MILLER, with either an SMF-217-MILLER 8x4 or SMB-217SL-MILLER 6x4 Kenworth T800 Heavy Duty Tractor (these are NOT inexpensive models). Here's their picture of the real thing doing its thing!

* - Note the different location of the trailing cab, just for example.

As I noted on the RR Schnabel pages, one really-big road monster tipped over on a sharp curve on a country road in Texas ca. 1980 or so - photos showed a veritable sea of tires in the air! Oh, how I'd love to find a photo of that disaster!

CURVED GIRDERS

Ooooh! Starting the new year (2002) off wrong! My ever-lovin' sister knowingly sent this gem (21 Jan 02)! But she sent it because my brother-in-law, a Civil Engineer with a major bridge builder, and I went at it tooth and nail many years ago about curved girders (vs. segmental tangent girders); little did she realize what caused the curvature or the strong dual interest it evoked in me (she sure does, now). Ohmygawd! This occurred on I-44 in Missouri; some driver's in baaaaad trouble!

[This startling coverage of a road-load-and-bridge disaster was moved here from Road Loads page 2.]

This photo was wiped out by AT&T and my backup was overwritten;
I was trying to recover it - HURRAH! SUCCESS!
(You can readily see why I am so elated.)

It was probably a dispatchers fault, but it's always the driver who has final responsibility (and who gets it you-know-where!). Bet that snarled things for a good bit!

This occurred at 19:34 on 29 Sep 2001 at the Route MM (Millcreek Road) interchange at Lebanon, mile post 130, when a trucker from Enid, OK, pulling an over-dimension 32' long 60,000# tank slammed into the girders, necessitating demolishing and replacing the bridge.

I did get this other photo, but it's not as dramatic:

However, thanks to the specific courtesy of the Lebanon (Missouri) Daily Record, here are two more, far more dramatic shots of the accident:

Much as I appreciate these two additional photos, I was sure glad to recover that overall side view!

Moving Big Muskie's Bucket

Thanks to Blake Malkamaki, from whose Big Muskie site I have his specific written permission to reproduce these great shots, here is the move of Big Muskie's bucket. Big Muskie WAS the world's largest dragline excavator [a 1969 model 4250-W Bucyrus-Erie dragline (the only one ever built)] until all the efforts of Blake and his friends could not avail and AEP scrapped her! However, the bucket was saved and had to be moved to a final "Memorial Site" (Miners' Memorial Park) off I78 near McConnelsville, Ohio, and therein lies the tale pictured here:

(all Muskie bucket photos courtesy B. Malkamaki - all rights reserved)
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Loaded and ready to roll!

Strainin' and smokin' even on the level.

Strainin' and smokin' cresting a hill.

Blake titled this photo: "WOW"; need I say more?

Left rear view in the rain; don't slip on me, now, Baby!

Telephoto lens or no, that's a STEEP hill; I doubt those plank chocks would have done
much good if they'd been really needed!

(all Muskie bucket photos courtesy B. Malkamaki - all rights reserved)
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Picked up, plonked down, and pickup!

Just for your edification, the bucket holds 220 cubic yards (equivalent to a 12 car garage) and could lift 325 tons; its empty weight is 230 tons! The monster machine could move along ponderously on hydraulically-actuated walking feet and could swing this bucket (at 550 tons gross!) 600 feet away and measured 151½' wide (like an 8-lane highway)!

Noble County, in the coal-bearing hills of southeastern Ohio, has a great series of pages on Big Muskie, herself!

Road Load Models

(moved here from Road Load cont. page 2 on 01 Mar 05)

[For models of rail equivalents, see Model Schnabel and other Giant Cars.]

Speaking of models and Schnabels and such, Kibri in Germany makes a wide range of Scheuerle and similar giant road vehicles in HO scale.

[The Kibri Website: auf Deutsch and in English.]

Here is a Kibri heavy hauler with a tubular load; although an HO-scale kit, I picked it up ready-made and slightly shop-worn in a hobby shop in Hannover, Germany. It is missing the rear bunk but is otherwise almost complete and I keep it on an 89' TT flat for scaling.

And here's an even longer version from the Scheuerle site:

(photo from the Scheuerle site)

A Web friend who supplied photos of the M65 Atomic Cannon moving through a German village also sent these images, a DB (German Railways) photo and diagram of the LS 250, a powered 10-axle road companion to a DB Schnabel railcar:

(LS 250 photo and diagram from DB)

These remind me that I have squirreled away somewhere a whole slew of never-attempted Kibri HO models based on this same Scheuerle design, which I bought while in that same Hannover hobby shop and never even started because of the tedium of assembling the endless sea of roadwheels! Scheuerle makes the prototypes on a modular concept, powered and trailed, and there is almost no limit to the permutations and combinations (there are, however, limits to the number of versions Kibri offers and to my wallet and patience!).

Kibri came out with an HO model of a road version of DB Uaai #687.9 [their # 16502, a 20-axle {2x(5+5)} unit]:

M�rklin brought out their HO #18820 Scheurle type LS 250 28-axle dual road tractor set, the "Heuler" ("Howler") (in DB Cargo red), to carry the trafo load from their HO #48295 Uai 839 Schnabel rail car on the highway:

M�rklin gave me specific permission to post their images of the #48295 car and #18820 LS 250:

M�rklin 48295 HO Uai 839 32-axle Schnabel Car

M�rklin 18820 HO Scheuerle LS 250
(Photos courtesy of and © M�rklin USA by special written permission 01 Feb 2005 - all rights reserved)

I couldn't very well let those two separate images just sit there, now could I? I trust M�rklin will forgive me this melded image:

[There is major coverage of the LS 250 models on the Schnabel page 2.]

Road Load Miscellany

From across the pond comes STG (The Specialist Transport Group) with some wondrous photos; here's a sample - 124 tons worth of wheels, wheels, and more wheels:

(Photo from STG site)

Next, I got a notice from Paul Bowers, of Piping Design Central in Montr�al, that he is discontinuing his own site and offering me his pictures, so, here they are in no particular order (the first two were scanned from color xerographic images, resulting in the strange moir� effect):

PBowersTruss

(all photos courtesy P. Bowers)
[All but first two are thumbnail images; click on pictures for larger images]

Some of these images are Paul's, of jobs where he did the piping, and some are from Cloutier-Powney and Associates, structural engineers, also in Montr�al.

Will you just look at the prestress in the picture of a vessel being loaded!

At first glance, that second-to-last picture looked like the Miller unit, above (it's not) and the last is actually Paul's background tile (wallpaper image) and I found that image so interesting (it's a HUGE, empty road schnabel) that I show it here and will shortly show the unaltered original (moir� pattern and all!).

I have now collected all of Paul's images; they are HUGE! I'm working on paring them to fit (there is actually a limit to how much bandwidth I'll give any subject), but here's a heavily-moir�d preview:

(photo courtesy P. Bowers)

DHS Diecast Collectables, Inc., of Berea, Ohio (noted above), has a large line of domestic and imported models of heavy-duty tractors, trailers, and cranes.

Paul Bowers also sent along this link 23 Dec 2004:

http://www.janvanwees.nl/,

"International Heavy Lift and Transport Page";

it's well worth your while to have a look.

Bay Crane

We have a major heavy hauler and rigger right here on Long island, Bay Crane, with an office in Nassau County at 389 New South Road, Hicksville, New York 11801, 516-937-1523 (and one in New York City: 11-02 43rd Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101, 718-392-0800).

They have done some really neat work locally, including hoisting our own ex-Long Island Rail Road steam locomotive #35.

In mid-October 2003, Bay Crane rigged a huge transformer for Corona, Queens County (in New York City), on 19 axles, and was kind enough to send me these pictures:

Bay Crane Corona 15

These are in no particular order; I hope to get more information.

W. J. Casey

Another major NY Metro area heavy hauler and lifter is W. J. Casey Trucking & Rigging Co. Inc. of Branchburg, New Jersey, crane, rigging, and transport specialists since 1900.

Founded by William James Casey, Sr., down on Bergen Street in Brooklyn, New York, the company did well, passing from W. J., Sr. to W. J., Jr. Unfortunately, W. J., Jr. died early and the company was in limbo from 1952 to 1954, when the Biondi family bought it and moved it to Newark, New Jersey.

Since that time, W. J. Casey kept growing, moving to Union, New Jersey, in 1975, and then to Branchburg in 2004, where it continues growing, guided by the third generation of Biondis.

Look at all that heavy haul equipment!

Pictures of some equipment and projects from the Casey site, by specific written permission, for which I am very grateful, follow:

General Electric Generator
Con Edison 14th Street Station - New York, NY:

Gross Weight: 710,000Lbs. (322,050 Kg.)
Loaded Dims: 125' L x 17'6" W x 20' H (38.1m x 5.3 m x 6.1 m)
Transport Equipment: (1) Kenworth Prime Mover with CWT. and 16 Lines Goldhofer THP/SL

Public Utility Transformer
Discharge from ACL Vessel:

Gross Weight: 570,000 Lbs. (258,548 Kg)
Loaded Dims: 95' L x 13 W x 18' H (28.9m x 3.9m x5.4m)
Equipment: (1) Kenworth 548CH Prime Mover with CWT. (1) 10 Line Goldhofer THP/SL

Air Separation Plant - Ontario, Canada, to Delta, Ohio
Gross Weight: 800,350 Lbs. (363,032 Kg):

Loaded Dims: 235' L x 21' W x 20' H (71.6m x 6.4m x 6.1m)
Transport Equipment: (1) Kenworth 548CH Prime Mover with CWT. (1) 12 Line Goldhofer THP/SL
and (1) 12 Line Cometto HST

Public Utility Transformer
Crane Load - Transport - Jack & Slide Off Load:

Gross Weight: 413,000 Lbs. (187,333 Kg)
Loaded Dims: 110' L x 12' W x 17' H (33.5m x 3.6m x 5.1m)
Transport Equipment: (1) Kenworth Prime Mover with CWT.
and (1) 4-Bridge-4 Goldhofer THP/SL

Pedestrian Walkway Section
Williamsburg Bridge - New York, NY:

Gross Weight: 320,000Lbs. (144,960Kg.)
Loaded Dims: 120' L x 28' W x 20' H (36.4m x 8.5 m x 6.1 m)
Transport Equipment: (1) Kenworth Prime Mover with CWT.
and (2) 4 Line Goldhofer THP/SL with Bolsters

W. J. Casey also does heavy lifting; two of their biggest mobile cranes are their 500-ton Liebherr LTM 1400.7 and 186-ton Liebherr LTM 1150/1:

Moving Big Boy (Loco) #4023

The Union Pacific Historical Society posted a series of photos of the incredible move, on 12 and 13 Mar 2005, of one of the units of the world's largest surviving steam locomotives, the UP Railroad's Big Boy 4-8-8-4 #4023, from downtown Omaha's Union Station out to a park in the suburbs. Thanks to the great generosity of the photographers and the courtesy of, and specific written permission from, the UPHS, the photos and much of the accompanying text of the UPHS coverage of the move is now on my Road Loads page 4 (off site on my private domain at http://sbiii.com/roadld-4.html. Because it is so closely related to the earlier move of #833, I moved that there, as well.

See page 1 for related links and references

Here are some of my own site links (12 May 00):

My own Tractors page, with its links.

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Consultant in Ultrasonic Processing "changing materials with high-intensity sound" Technical and Historical Writer, Oral Historian Popularizer of Science and Technology Rail, Auto, Air, Ordnance, and Model Enthusiast Light-weight Linguist, Lay Minister, and Putative Philosopher

ROAD LOADS

Gigantic highway and off-road trucks and trailers

HEAVY HAULAGE and we mean HEAVY, here!

[similar to railroad Schnabel and other GIANT railroad freight cars]

INDEX

Highway and Off-Road Variants of SCHNABEL and other giant RAILROAD CARS

Road/Highway Schnabels

CURVED GIRDERS

Moving Big Muskie's Bucket

Road Load Models

Road Load Miscellany

Bay Crane

W. J. Casey

Moving Big Boy (Loco) #4023

THUMBS UP!

Consultant in Ultrasonic Processing
"changing materials with high-intensity sound"
Technical and Historical Writer, Oral Historian
Popularizer of Science and Technology
Rail, Auto, Air, Ordnance, and Model Enthusiast
Light-weight Linguist, Lay Minister, and Putative Philosopher

HEAVY HAULAGE
and we mean HEAVY, here!

[similar to railroad Schnabel
and other GIANT railroad freight cars]

Highway and Off-Road Variants of
SCHNABEL and other
giant RAILROAD CARS