Western Railroad Discussion > Continuation of KRL 3600 LOAD ( 36 axle - Schnabel Car )

KRL 3600  delivered the 770 TON  nuclear reactor from SONGS in Southern Cal. to Arrolime / Apex, NV. 
The reactor was unloaded > loaded to a  130' long, 21' wide ( double wide )  Goldhofer hydraulic platform trailer that has 24 axles x 16 tires per axle  = 384 ! TIRES.
There are 2 prime mover tractors in front pulling the trailer and 4  heavy duty tractors in the rear pushing. plus the trailer has a hydraulic ADDrive system...
They will depart next week from Apex via, 93, 318, 6, ELY, 93, 93A Wendover, Clive, UT.    
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Thanks for the photos on the load's travels. I'd be interested in seeing more as it heads north through Nevada and into Utah.
The SONGS load is a reactor pressure vessel, not a nuclear reactor. The RPV is the container for the coolant, reactor core, and core shroud. The RPV is from SONGS 1, the first nuclear generating station built at that location. It was decommissioned beginning in late 1992 and has sat at the San Onofre site since that time.

Thanks for the report!  If an interior tire went flat, is there an easy way to deal with it, or do you change it out when the load is gone?

mapboy

mapboy Wrote:
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> Thanks for the report!  If an interior tire went
> flat, is there an easy way to deal with it, or do
> you change it out when the load is gone?
>
> mapboy

Nothing is easy when changing tires, but, yes, interior tires can be changed while the trailer is loaded.

It's a dirty nasty job.

Normally during highway running it's the outside rights that catch the brunt due to debris on the shoulder.

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Love the flag on the lead tractor. Must be one of the good old boys. Hope the road this rig travels on has no sharpe turns.

Valleyman

Thanks for posting this.....

That is one fascinating truck...!!

Was the rail car scrapped nearby as predicted?

Steve Donaldson
Pacific Grove, CA

SteveD Wrote:
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> Was the rail car scrapped nearby as predicted?

There was a thread a couple months ago showing it being dismantled.