That's impressive. I was snapping pics when Chapman's trencher left our job. I only counted 72 tires on it.

The "core" is the fuel and was removed from the reactor vessel. This is the reactor vessel itself. I don't know if the internals, upper and lower, are included in the package that was shipped or not. It would make sense to me to have left the lowers in place and to have put the uppers back in place after the fuel assemblies and control rod assemblies were removed (which both were).

We had one of those superloads come through here last year. This was a tissue paper dryer. Some of the hills they went up and down were amazing.

Man that's cool right there

"On the Road Again" Three Mile Island coming down your street.

I see they are all duals so you got about 80 tires plus all the front ones!

B ryce

I’m surprised that they dont have a to dismantle it further so its not so heavy? Since it was said they maybe radioactive, a torch probably isn’t a good idea.

I read that the reactor vessels from units 2 and 3 are going to be cut up and shipped as smaller loads, but this one was not.

30 years ago I was working for a grain elevator and they used our section of train tracks to move a big electrical transformer. It came in on a flat car and was transferred by two giant cranes to a flat bed semi truck. The truck looked a lot like the one in the photo with, maybe, 20 axles. The axles would steer as the truck went around bends. The truck had a state police escort and left us at 5mph on a 15 mile trip to the local nuclear plant.

The transformer was the biggest I've ever seen and took up most of 2 lanes but the weight was a bigger issue. I don't know what it weighed.

I guess all those tires must spread the weight out significantly because 770 tons seems like a lot more than you’d want to put on a normal highway.

That's exactly what its designed to do - spread the weight out.