RE: [ihc] no IH content, but fun--

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a UP "Big Boy" in the St. Louis County
Transportation Museum.  Hard to imagine something like
that moving.

Steve
--- Greg Hermann <bearbvd@domain.elided> wrote:

> At 11:30 PM 10/24/04, John M. Adams wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-ihc@domain.elided
> [mailto:owner-ihc@domain.elided]On Behalf Of
> >> Greg Hermann
> >> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:42 PM
> >> To: ihc@domain.elided
> >> Subject: [ihc] no IH content, but fun--
> >>
> >>
> >> Saw a 148 wheeler (highway) rig today !!!!
> >
> >P.S. If that WAS an E60C or equivalent loco like
> their other ones, its
> >weight is typically between 185 and 195 U.S. tons
> (plus or minus a few
> >pounds... :)
> 
> Sorta light compared to, say, one of the UP's old
> 'Big Boy' steam mallets
> !!! Climbed and looked all over one of them once at
> the Forney
> Transportation Museam once in Denver, before they
> moved it. 1,250,000 lbs.
> of iron in one of those critters !! :-)
> 
>  If you add the weight of the two tractors, the
> "jeeps", the
> >carrier beam... Man, I don't want to think what the
> total weight of that rig
> >was.
> 
> Had to be in the neighborhood of 600 K lbs,, maybe
> even north of that,
> including the ballast on the two tractors.
> 
> Must really be a LOT of art involved for the two
> tractor drivers to
> coordinate their driving!
> 
> Greg
> 
> How do get a rating to drive something like that?
> It's not like there's
> >much opportunity to practice! Wish I could have
> seen it...
> >
> >Any pictures?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >John A.