Unusual prototype loads

Welcome Guest! To enable all features please Login or Register.

Notification

Error

Unusual prototype loads - A little bit of an older picture

Options

View

Previous Topic Next Topic

7gauges		#1 Posted : 06 November 2021 17:04:02(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 10/12/2002(UTC) Posts: 328		80 foot flat cars loaded with blades for wind turbines in northeastern British Columbia. Load is in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the CP mainline and will need to be transferred to the CN system that goes through Grande Prairie, Alberta and Dawson Creek, British Columbia. The route is sinuous to say the least.
		Collecting / Fixing and Running trains since 1966.

5 users liked this useful post by 7gauges		kiwiAlan, kimballthurlow, ixldoc, marklinist5999, Wildrose-Wally
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks


	Wish to join the discussion?! Login to your marklin-users.net community \| Forum account or Register a new forum account. Or Connect via Facebook

kiwiAlan		#2 Posted : 06 November 2021 20:25:24(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,109 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: 7gauges 80 foot flat cars loaded with blades for wind turbines in northeastern British Columbia. Load is in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the CP mainline and will need to be transferred to the CN system that goes through Grande Prairie, Alberta and Dawson Creek, British Columbia. The route is sinuous to say the least. Would be interesting to have a drone following that and supplying video footage. Having watched TV footage of such blades being moved on roads by specialist carriers, it would be interesting to see how this would work. I guess this is where the (relatively) large radius of railroad curves comes to the rescue. how close is the end rail head to the final delivery site?


User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

7gauges		#3 Posted : 06 November 2021 22:21:26(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 10/12/2002(UTC) Posts: 328		Turns out these blades came from Monterey, Mexico,to Calgary, 3600 km, and then to the point of use is another 1100 km. The CO2 emissions for green power are ridiculous. Theblades were fabricated in Mexico (cheap labour and minimal health and environmental standards). But we aren’t supposed to talk about that. It is all unicorn farts and fairy giggles. COP 26….. 4 years or so later, the blades failed and the wind farm is non productive.
		Collecting / Fixing and Running trains since 1966.

4 users liked this useful post by 7gauges		ixldoc, roberts, Wildrose-Wally, kimballthurlow
User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks

Users browsing this topic
Guest

Forum Jump

You cannot post new topics in this forum.
You cannot reply to topics in this forum.
You cannot delete your posts in this forum.
You cannot edit your posts in this forum.
You cannot create polls in this forum.
You cannot vote in polls in this forum.