I’d be willing to bet it’s way too long for a train car, and trains can’t carry loads over a certain height (tunnels and bridges) or over a certain width (tunnels again, and places where the tracks are parallel for the trains to pass one another).
Be nice if they could send them by rail–and I sure truckers having to deal with wide or long loads while trying to dodge idiots in econoboxes wouldn’t mind either!
Yeah. Some truck drivers are amazing how they can put those things into the tinest places. Threading a needle.
Be safe, Mason!! 
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Yup, uh huh.
I’ve hauled oversized through Dallas many times. No big deal, just another day.
Train takes too long and couldn’t handle it anyway. We truckers haul parts for the railroad because they can’t get their own stuff there fast enough. What takes a day or two on a truck can take weeks on a train.
Ya get used to it. For me driving my rig through town feels as natural as you in your car.
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I’ve hauled a few blades and turbines here and there. Talk about a real pain, those blades are sometimes as long as 130 feet.
Bingo! Too big for rail. Also would take too long.
Thanks, we do what we can. Backing into a parking spot in a truckstop is harder than most places we go. Often there’s only about six inches margin one way or the other.
I surely didn’t know that, I always thought a train would be faster because there would be no traffic or traffic lights, etc. to worry about. Ya learn something new every day! :teehee:
Reminds me of the trucks that haul parts for wind turbines up here in ND. The main structure is so big and tall, the attach one end to a “short” trailer connected to the truck and basically a set of wheels to the other end. It’s nuts!
I had a semi with just one of the blades pass me once - I thought it was hauling a jetliner wing! :shock:
I’ve never seen that. Most of the men in my family drive truck. My Grandpa was an owner/operater and hauled rolled steel. Once he rolled it during a storm and lost a finger and he hasn’t done that since. Now he drives plows and mowers for the highway department. My dad does short hauls for a lot of stores. things like stuffed animals and candy and such. I have cousins that drive deisl (sp?) engines for the military in places we aren’t allowed to know the name of. My dad used to joke that he would teach me how to drive a semi before a car and then I would be able to drive anything. he had me so freaked out that everytime I ever got in his truck I was worried he would want me to drive :roflhard: Anyway, my whole family drives, some married partners even. I still can’t comprehend how they drive and park those things. LOL you should see me park my bf’s pos ford escort. :roflhard:
Anyway, i hope you have a good drive and that you stay safe.
Well, trains never go straight to anywhere. Cars are dropped in their yards and connected to other trains going in the general direction of the destination for that freight, then transferred again and again until they reach the yard closest to their destination where the stuff is then loaded in trucks for the actual delivery. The whole process can literally takes weeks and sometimes months. That’s why when shippers need their stuff delivered quickly and on time they use trucks.
Everything is shipped by truck, even if it was on a train at some point.
Yeah those things are huge. I don’t do stuff that big very often, but I do once in a while, usually crane sections.
Believe it or not after a few years of driving a rig it’s as natural to you as a car.
How long and wide is that thing? DH wants to know if you have to have an escort vehicle with you?
It’s 12’ wide 13’ 9" tall and 80’ long (including the tractor). The only state where I’ll need an escort is Florida and they’re meeting me at the state line on Monday.
Egad, that’s huge! :noway: Thanks for the info!