So Mom's new job involves issuing permits for really large vehicles to travel across the roads of Virginia. Recently her team put together a permit and route to allow a 402 ton, 225 foot long, 30 foot wide generator to move about 170 miles from Knoxville TN to St Paul VA and is expected to take about two weeks, conditions permitting. You can see a new video here and some pictures here. It’s an 803,000-pound steam turbine that requires two push trucks, two pull trucks and 28 dollies for a total of 244 wheels on the pavement and a combined length of 320 feet. Here is the route it is taking. The generator is being installed in a coal fired powrplant that is 30 minutes from where Mom grew up.
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