Transformer Relocation

Scope and Content: Photograph of a 90-ton electrical transformer being moved when a flat tire occurred. The crew of this Baseline Transport unit from Calgary was fairly lucky. It could have been 42 flat tires if all the tires on the low-boy trailer and truck had let go. The trailer was rated for a 150-ton capacity an…

Scope and Content: Photograph of a 90-ton electrical transformer being moved when a flat tire occurred. The crew of this Baseline Transport unit from Calgary was fairly lucky. It could have been 42 flat tires if all the tires on the low-boy trailer and truck had let go. The trailer was rated for a 150-ton capacity and had two strings of eight wheels across the back and the same arrangement on the front dolly. The truck had eight driving wheels and two front wheels. The gross weight of the truck, trailer and transformer was 122 tons. The transformer was being taken from a rail siding at Fort Macleod to a Calgary Power Ltd. Sub-station nine miles west of Fort Macleod. The transformer was shipped pressure-filled with 17,000 gallons of special insulating oil which had only six parts per million water content.