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Transformator exchange on Sep 08, 2007
430-Ton-transformator rolls to Sümmern
A heavy transport of the not completely everyday kind will sit down in the today's evening at 10 pm of the station Hennen out in motion. A goal is the RWE transformer station in the range Bixterheide in Sümmern, which travel time there will amounted to according to estimations four hours.
According to police data the heavy transport should bring a weight of 430 tons on the road and be 4.90 meters high 61 meters long as well as. By means of the local centre transport is to reach Hennen, die Helle, Kalthofer Straße, Barendorfer Straße, Sümmerner Straße, Wendler-Kreuzung, Landhauser Straße and finally Kuckelburgweg its place of destination.
In the run-up to, so the police, already drove off the special enterprise the distance. Despite existing building sites the way was called mobile. On tomorrow's Saturday about 10pm is to take place the return trip of transport starting from transformer station Bixterheide.
Background of transport is a transformator exchange in the transformer station Bixterheide. However the new Trafo weighs already 230 tons. On the Saturday return the old Trafo is to be disposed at the same time. The specific action serves the increase of supply security, said to it a RWE speaker. Everything is prepared in such a way by net change-overs that it does not come also during transformator exchange to restrictions in the current supply. However the transportation and assembly costs are numbered on 300,000 euro.
I wonder why there were signs in the town, then there was the answer: high, wide, heavy !
These two pictrues are from Nils Hirche, Friday afternoon.
And Saturday morning:
There was a turnout 30 years ago. Together with team track and side ramp. The ramp is long gone and overgrown. But they kept the team track without connection. I guess the bent the rails in the night. You see in the third picture the flood lamps they used. But it's probably cheaper this way when you charge maintenance costs.
Next day, in the morning, the transport has arrived in the night at the team track. It's still rainy.
Two hours later:
Next night, they will bend again the rail, "throw the switch". Time needed, one hour! Then they pick up the Schnabel car and line the rail again, one hour. But then they will need more time, they will weld the rails again. Therefore, could be, the rails must be warmed up. This will take some time more. But they will be ready for the first scheduled train in the morning. The old transformator will go for scrap.
More pictures about these cars Uaai 687.9 and Uaai 838.
I have had a thread in TrainBoard as well as in Trains.com forum.
More at Westfälische Rundschau Sep 10
links: Schnabel Railroad Car Page, Schnabel Cars, Schnabel CEBX #800, CEBX 800, Schnabel Cars, WECX 301,
And now, a week later Sep 14 it looks tidy, the rails are welded again (for the next thirty years?):
