INDEX

On Road Loads Page 2:
    MOVING THE GLENWOOD TANKS
    Road Load Models (moved to pg. 3).
    Mammoet Mammoth Road Loads, plus

On the Road Loads Page 3:
    Danly Press {to follow}.
    Miller Transfer Rig.
    Road Load Models (moved from pg. 2 on 01 Mar 05).
    Road Load Miscellany.
    Bay Crane.
    W. J. Casey.   (20 Nov 08)

On the Road Load page 4 (on sbiii.com):
    Moving Big Boy (Loco) #4023.
    Moving DDA40X (Loco) #6900.   (27 Mar 08)

On this Road Load Page 5:
    CRNL Coker to Ft. McMurray
    BIG Ooops! (American Transport in Wyoming).
    Columbia Gorge
    Alberta SAGD Steam Generator

On the McHugh Road Loads Page:
  (30 Aug 08)
  History of the McHugh Firm.
  USS Fairless Vessels.
  Phila. Red Arrow Cars.
  McHugh #243 Tractor.
  McHugh Technical Background.
  McHugh Bros. Equipment List.
  Excerpted McHugh Bros. Equipment Diagrams.

On the main McHugh Road Load page:   (30 Aug 08)
  History of the McHugh Firm.
  USS Fairless Vessels.
  Philadelphia Red Arrow Cars.
  McHugh #243 Tractor.
  McHugh Technical Background.
  McHugh Bros. Equipment List.
  Excerpted McHugh Bros. Equipment Diagrams.

On the McHugh Road Load Continuation Page 1:   (17 Sep 08)
  1980 McHugh Bros. Brochure.
  Moving the Franklin Institute's 707.   (18 Sep 08)
    and just scroll on down for even more!   (19 Sep 08)

On the main RR Schnabel Car page:
        Scroll away, plus these specifics -
        Schnabel Diagram.
        Schnabel Car Loading Technique.
        Schnabel References.
        Road/Highway Schnabels.

On the RR Schnabel Car 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 -
        More about 36-wheel 880-Ton Schnabel Car(s).
        Model Schnabel and other Giant Cars (moved from Main Page, 04 Dec 99).
        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!).

See also Paul Bowers's " The Schnabel Webpage" (with other over-sized load coverage).   He advised of a neat film clip of movement of the largest water wheel in the world from Canada to China (click on "Moving dam - Watch this segment now") .

I seem to have neglected to mention on my RR Schnabel page that the U. S. Army's 280mm Atomic Cannon was actually a road Schnabel (Tom Daspit reminded me); the T-131 cannon was mounted on a bridgework carried between two huge rubber-tired truck tractors with load arms; the front truck has load arms pointed to the rear while the rear truck had the load arms pointed toward the front.  When they were deployed in Germany after the war (WWII), they tipped over with appalling regularity while traversing tight curves in tiny towns.  I have an original Comet Metal Products AUTHENTICAST HO model; it turned up and is pictured on my Ordnance Continuation Page, q.v.

(Photo by and © 2000 S. Berliner, III - All Rights Reserved)

(Ordnance Museum Foundation Photo)

Tom Daspit's RR site, especially his newly revamped and expanded "Schnabel Cars" and "Large Flat Cars" pages have hundreds of photos, directories, lists, and more info. on schnabel and heavy-duty cars and loads. Be sure to follow all his internal links to get the full impact of his arduous labors on our behalf; many thanks, Tom!

Tom revised his RR site dramatically ca. Oct/Nov 02; earlier, he added a new set of photos that crossed over between RR and Road Load; the move of the Union Pacific #833, an historic ALCo FEF-4-class Northern 4-8-4, from Pioneer Park in Salt Lake City to the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden on Sunday, 21 Feb 99, slung under a pair of road arms in a classic push-pull highway operation; because he may not keep them up very long, I asked if I might copy them off and put them up here.  Permission granted and here they are:

"Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 833 finally made its trip from (Pioneer Park in) Salt Lake City to ( the Utah State Railroad Museum in) Ogden on Sunday, February 21, 1999, as planned, by truck. Newspaper reports variously put the cost of moving the roughly 450,000-pound locomotive and tender at $100,000 and $120,000, apparently funded by a grant from the Utah Legislature."

(All photos from alt.binaries.pictures.rail by boj@xmission.com, courtesy of Tom Daspit - Mar 2000)
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Sorry, no specific captions on these, but - hey, who needs captions?

This move is also pictured on page 50 of the June 1999 Railfan & Railroad Magazine, where you can also see the Centipede tender on a giant flat-bed.

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Here are a few selected shots (some cropped just to save memory) and information from captions provided by Dave Belcher of the run of one of the 416-ton coke drums from Edmonton to the oil patch at Ft. McMurray, Alberta. You have two shots on the highway with a Dutch Terberg COE tractor pulling a standard-hood Kenworth hooked to a Scheuerle 160-wheel trailer, the drum, another 160-wheel trailer, and finally a pair of Terbergs, side-by-side, pushing at the rear (and, one assumes and fervently prays, braking on downgrades)! Note how the rig follows the road contour in the second shot. Then there's a shot at a RR crossing (with only two feet clearance) and one waiting for a funeral to pass, showing the rear of the rig with the two Terberg pushers, both taken in Two Hills:

(Images cropped from pictures provided by and © 2000 Dave Belcher - all rights reserved)
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Yet more came filtering in:

(Images cropped from pictures provided by and © 2000 Dave Belcher - all rights reserved)
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Now, we have the rest of the shots; the first two are of the tractor showing the large traction weights fitted over the rear wheels and the load, which swivels on fifth-wheel pivots (turntables) and has hydraulic levelers:

(Images provided by and © 2000 Dave Belcher - all rights reserved)
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MOVING THE GLENWOOD TANKS

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(All photos 09 May 00 by and © 2000 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)

Dave Belcher (of Alberta fame) also sent along these links:

    Home page for Kenworth Trucks
          and their parent company Paccar {the old Pacific Car and Foundry}.

    Home page for Terberg Trucks.

    Home page for Scheuerle trailers,
        who supplied the 320 wheel trailer system.

    Home page for Dacro Industries of Edmonton,
        who built the large vessel being transported.

    Home page for Mullen Transportation who moved the vessel
        and their subsidiary company Premay Equipment
        who handled the move and this link showing a big-rig move.

    Home page for Suncor Energy,
        where the big vessel is being installed.

    Home page for Syncrude Canada Ltd.,
        another large oilsands operation in Fort MacMurray.

    Home page for ETARCO, another Canadian company
        which specializes in moving large loads
        (with a branch in the Netherlands - Van Seumeren Holland B.V.).

And here are some more links (16 Mar 00):

My own Tractors page, with its links.

The world's largest mining truck from Caterpillar.

A big mover in Australia.

And how about this company in Thailand.

Holy mackerel, Andy! It's one thing to read and write about these monsters; it's quite another to see one up close in the "flesh".  Ca. 21:30 on 04 Mar 00, I ran an errand and ran smack-dab into a massive traffic tie-up as the combined efforts of the Nassau County police, LIPA (the Long Island Power Authority), Bell Atlantic, cable TV, and a host of other utility outfits (since when is cable a utility?) guided traffic and raised power and telephone and cable lines and traffic lights while a J. Supor (see below) heavy-duty three-axle road tractor pulled a 12-axle Nicholas flat (very flat!) bed with a giant transformer and a huge Cat wheel tractor pushing.  This tangled up State Route 25A, Northern Boulevard, from Roslyn westward; I ran into the convoy (some 50 vehicles) as it came south on Port Washington Boulevard and turned west on 25A, jumped around it on local roads, and came out ahead of it in Manhasset.  I had the good timing to be in front of Barnes & Noble when the rig snagged a transverse line and started to crack the utility pole against which I had been leaning (until the strain started).  They eased the strain without having to back the rig more than a few feet (can you imagine 96 or more bogies swiveling around under that monster?) and using an Optima Cable TV cherry picker to force the cable up a few extra inches.  Do you think for one minute I thought to run for my camera?  Forget it, Charlie!  Sorry 'bout that!

An interesting collection of moderately-heavy European tractors and low-boys are on R. S. Meijer's outstanding Dutch European Road Transport Gallery, with even more links.

If your road isn't paved and you're interested in MONSTER MUSH-MASHING MUCK-MEANDERING MACHINES, you should look at Pentastar's site (thanks to Dave Blecher for this link; NOT for the alliteration).

[Hey!  "Pentastar" is a Chrysler trademark (for their pentagonal corporate emblem)!]

Tom Daspit was busy and sent along these links:

Rigging International's site, with a great picture of a steam generator being lifted and loaded into the side of a nuclear power plant,

Sheedy Co., especially their heavy lift and international links, and

Lockwood Brothers, some of whose pictures (all small) are reproduced here -

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(All photos from Lockwood Brothers site,
artificially lightened to better show bogie detail)

The first picture is unidentified but look at that monster tractor and the wild angle of departure from the ramp to the dock!  The second is captioned about transporting a 170' long x 12' diameter pressure vessel from New Jersey to the dockside in Texas using Lockwood's 14-line Trabosa hydraulic trailer with a 420 ton capacity.  The third shot is of their Trabosa trailer with a 21' diameter Yankee Dryer on their specialized Ro-Ro barge at Newport News and the last shot is of the removal of a low-level radioactive steam generator weighing approximately 750 tons from the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and there's an even-bigger tractor [apparently a Hendrickson virtually identical to the one run by Higgins that appears on the inside back cover of Classic Freight Cars - Vol. 6 - see RR Schnabel references (bibliography)].

I'll have to look into both Higgins and Hendricksen, eh?

And speaking of models and Schnabels and such, Kibri in Germany (German site; with English version) in Germany makes a wide range of Scheuerle and similar giant road vehicles in HO scale.

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.

(photo by and © 2000 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)

Here's another GREAT link; the site of J. Supor & Son Trucking & Rigging Co., Inc., headquartered in Harrison, New Jersey.  Road and rail and heavy, HEAVY, HEAVY!  You just have to go there and navigate the site for dozens of fabulous pix!

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From the Railroad schnabel page, here's a reference to catch:

        "Classic Freight Cars - The Series", Vol. 6, Loaded Flats and Gondolas", Henry Maywald,