Another Heavy Flat Load (Pics)

[Dough]

After seeing pics of the other heavy load on flats, I figured that it would give me a good reason to scan up a few of my own. Here is something really heavy that I caught stopped on the NS line in Gainesville, Georgia a few years ago. I don't have a clue what it is, but the writing mentions something about an electric company so I'm sure it is headed to a power plant. That is also a BNSF up there on the front, and that was back before run through power was as common as it is today. I also threw in the transformer and tractor since they were on the same train right behind the heavy load.

Note the boxcar between the heavy flats and the engines. Also their was no caboose on this one. It looked like a regular mixed freight train and was actually quite long.

[SP4449]

TRY THIS LINK : http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=77462, and this one: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=63457.

[SP4449]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SP4449

TRY THIS LINK : http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=77462, and this one: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=63457.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=77462 . Sorry, the link included the comma and would not correctly bring the foto up. Try it now.

[cwclark]

the vessel is a boiler drum for a GE gas turbine power plant...the heat from the turbine boils the water (the many small pipes on the side connect to pipes in the heat duct of the turbine exhaust chamber) and turn it into steam which is collected in this drum...it's too big for a GE frame 7 gas turbine plant so my guess is it's the newer frame 9 version or it's destined to a plant that produces low pressure steam ..the plants are usually built to specifications dictated by the purchaser..it's a low pressure drum because the ports are large and there are fewer ports than on high pressure drums...high pressure drums would have many more ports with smaller diameter piping......chuck

[RedLeader]

You want to see the biggest, the ugliest and the meanest... go to this web site:
http://www.garlic.com/~tomd/
size does matter

[SP4449]

Really good stuff, RedLeader.

[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cwclark

the vessel is a boiler drum for a GE gas turbine power plant...the heat from the turbine boils the water (the many small pipes on the side connect to pipes in the heat duct of the turbine exhaust chamber) and turn it into steam which is collected in this drum...it's too big for a GE frame 7 gas turbine plant so my guess is it's the newer frame 9 version or it's destined to a plant that produces low pressure steam ..the plants are usually built to specifications dictated by the purchaser..it's a low pressure drum because the ports are large and there are fewer ports than on high pressure drums...high pressure drums would have many more ports with smaller diameter piping......chuck

It sounds to me like you might be describing an integrated gas combined cycle power plant. There is a gas turbine this is where air is compressed, then reacted with a flammable gas or atomized flammable liquid (ignited). The hot gas then goes into a steam generator where is boils and (probably) super heats water that then goes into a steam turbine. Is this what you are talking about?

[DonaldAgne]

I think the first pictures are of the boiler for the new nuclear-powered "clean steam" streamlined 2-10-10-2 being developed by GE. ...Well, why not?

[darth9x9]

QUOTE: Originally posted by RedLeader

You want to see the biggest, the ugliest and the meanest... go to this web site:
http://www.garlic.com/~tomd/
size does matter

Very cool site! Thanks for the info.

[Junctionfan]

Nice. Do you have any pictures of Schnabel cars carrying anything?

[RedLeader]

The mighty CEBX 800 carrying a nueclear reactor crossing the Congaree River in Columbia, S. C.