(how they do it in EUROPE)
用卡车运火车：
What do
you do when you need to transport a locomotive (or a vintage steam
engine) over the usual highways to another city? Here is how they do it
in Europe (possibly Finland):
Imaging
driving on a normal highway in the morning fog, and seeing this steam
engine materialize right in front of you… you’d probably cross
yourself and mutter a few prayers.
MOVING LOCOMOTIVES:
(how they do it in NORTH AMERICA)
Here is how they handle the similar task in the West.
This article says:
"Union
Pacific 4-8-4 No. 833 finally made its trip from (Pioneer Park in) Salt
Lake City to (the Utah State Railroad Museum in) Ogden on Sunday,
February 21, 1999, as planned, by truck. Newspaper reports variously
put the cost of moving the roughly 450,000-pound locomotive and tender
at $100,000 and $120,000, apparently funded by a grant from the Utah
Legislature."
MOVING PLANES:
"SPRUCE GOOSE" FLYING BOAT, 1947
用卡车运飞机……
When it comes to moving "the Biggest Float Plane in the world" and the one with the
"Largest Wing-span",
it certainly will provide some stunning visuals. These are some shots
from 1947 showing how it was done. (you can watch the move in detail in
"The Aviator" movie)
But first, a few facts about the plane:
The Spruce Goose, officially known as the Hughes H-4 Hercules,
was the brainchild of flamboyant billionaire Howard Hughes. The
aircraft had originally been ordered by the US government during World
War II as a giant cargo plane for the armed troops and tanks. Howard
Hughes’s creation was the world’s largest plane at the time and is
still the largest flying boat ever built. It also holds records for the
largest wingspan at 97.5 meters, tallest airplane at 24.2 meters, and
the largest aircraft ever made from wood.
Here is how they transported it to the harbor for its first (and only) flight:
basking in the sun before the first flight:
HOW THEY TRANSPORT FIGHTER JETS IN RUSSIA:
俄罗斯街头的战斗机运输车队……
Spied on a normal Russian city street. Hope all went well, and they did not have any accidents along the way, like this one:
有时候飞机在公路上开也会遇到些麻烦，比如像这个…… 机翼把人家车顶盖都给卷走了……
TRANSPORTING SPACE SHUTTLES
运航天飞机……
… to the launching pad, by means of the famous NASA Crawler:
…and piggy-backing on top of the larger airplane:
《超人归来》里面可以看到的这种用民用飞机运航天飞机的作法。
Columbia on top the Boeing:
The Soviet Buran shuttle on top of the giant An-225 (6 engines!)
TRANSPORTING OTHER THINGS
运其他的东西……
Well, in South Africa
no loads are moved by rail like in the USA, Germany, India and Japan,
but they have huge open spaces ideal for transporting large
equipment… by means of the HUGE TRUCK TRAINS
超长卡车列……
Looking like something out of a feverish Mad Max dream, these otherworldly centipedes are described
here and here as a very capable combination of machines:
in fact,
THIS IS THE LARGEST ON-HIGHWAY VEHICLE IN THE WORLD!
高速路上出现的最大的车辆……
– 370 ton Siemens generator stator with a gross combination load of 860 tons
– five Ultra Pacific trucks in one line, giving 4000hp.
– Total length 160m.
– The heaviest load transported: 950 ton (tunnel boring machine)
370吨，160米长，最大载重可达950吨……
They also have the largest trailer (with 338 wheels):
拖车有338个轮子……
Finally, on a slightly surrealistic note –
INVASION OF THE ABNORMALS
一个小镇上经过的运载着巨型东东的卡车。
The sleepy and dreamy quality of the small British town of Chorley was shattered by the passing of the "abnormal" load truck trains through their main street:
