On my hands after work yesterday, so I drug out the camera.
Second McMotor leaves paint, and some wind mill nacels for a wind farm.
Hope they start super sizing the Happy Meals.....
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We see these and blades go thru Lincoln and the size of all of that just staggers me each time! And I thought Boeings were big....
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
The flatcars they are on are the same length, more or less, as a auto rack.
....And just 3 mi. or less from me, the Brevini Co.,{Italian}, has a brand new factory to build the monster gear sets {48,000 lbs.}, each set, for such wind mills to produce electricity.
Finally, just a week or so ago, the needed N S railroad spur was approved to be constructed {about a mile or so}, off the Frankfort, In. line back to Park One where this plant has been built.
It's been a struggle to get all this stuff approved....Several years...!
Quentin
We just saw an eastbound "blade runner" today (first time Pat's seen a train like that). One blade takes more than two 89-foot flat cars (there is a little overlap).
We're not far from the lands where these things get planted. There are bumper crops of them south of DeKalb and Rochelle.
In my home town, there is (was?) a debate about whether these big windmills would be allowed to be built offshore in Lake Michigan. They'd be eyesores to some, boondoggles to others (as close to political as I intend to get), but they'd certainly lend a little variety to the horizon!
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
CShaveRR In my home town, there is (was?) a debate about whether these big windmills would be allowed to be built offshore in Lake Michigan. They'd be eyesores to some, boondoggles to others (as close to political as I intend to get), but they'd certainly lend a little variety to the horizon!
Sunset photos in this case, Jim, and I don't know just how far offshore they'd be. I'm assuming that it is larger craft that would have to watch out for them (no comment on the sobriety of the skippers of pleasure craft that can venture into the higher seas).
CShaveRR Sunset photos in this case, Jim, and I don't know just how far offshore they'd be. I'm assuming that it is larger craft that would have to watch out for them (no comment on the sobriety of the skippers of pleasure craft that can venture into the higher seas).
...Power producing windmills do exist now in the water at various locations.
...And Carl take note: Our Cardinal Greenway Trail, {that you saw here in Muncie}, now is complete all the way to Richmond, In....A distance of roughly 40 plus miles. And of course 10 miles in the other direction...To Gaston from our Trail Head. The ex. C&O restored depot.
I read somewhere that someone is planning to put power producing windmills off the coast of Texas and Louisiana in the Gulf on abandoned oil platforms. These will be special in that the blades will fold and point down and the tower will collapse into itself so that they can withstand a moderate hurricane.
Will
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