1,000-foot-long transport draws crowds
A 640-ton transport wending its way from East Tennessee to Virginia is moving along like a slow-moving procession - and drawing crowds as it lumbers through towns.
"It's actually drawn more spectators than complainers," said Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Traci Barrett. "It's been like a parade with people bringing out their children and lawn chairs."
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"It's actually drawn more spectators than complainers," said Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Traci Barrett. "It's been like a parade with people bringing out their children and lawn chairs."
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Despite a schedule that restricts the convoy to move only between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., crowds are gathering along the way. The 1,000-foot-long convoy of vehicles began its planned 170-mile land journey Saturday from the Forks of the River Industrial Park. The convoy includes a 803,000-pound steam generator on a special transporter. The transporter is being pushed and pulled by at least four 1,000-horsepower trucks described by Tim Fielder as "tractor-trailer rigs on steroid." The generator came to the industrial park by way of ship from Japan and then on a barge at Baton Rouge, La., said Fielder, with Barnhart Crane and Rigging Company, which is in charge of the transport. The destination is a coal-powered power plant operated by Dominion Virginia Power in St. Paul, Va., in the southwest portion of the state in Wise County. |
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