These photos came through on railpictures.net:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 88&nseq=23

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 74&nseq=37

An earlier post mentions the apparent overkill on moving a 40 foot boxcar into place in Pennsylvania. The moving effort for this one seems fit for a 4-8-4. I've seen a 2-8-2T moved on a seriously smaller trailer over the highway. In the end if it goes as planned it's all good.

It's always better to have more capacity than you need. There was a story about Seashore Trolley Museum moving a bypassed Boston Elevated station to their display area in Maine. Maybe someone closer can supply more details, but apparently the first rigging company brought a spreader bar that was much too light for the job. The first time the crew tried to lift the structure, the bar "bent like a paper clip."

As I had it explained to me by the riggers that took the Ma & Pa diesel down to Muddy Creek Forks, Pa. with a similarly "extravagant" rig, the consideration is not so much how heavy the object to be moved is, but what the roads and bridges on the route can stand, combined with how much room you have to turn corners. Some of the bigger rigs are far more easily steered around corners--the equivalent of having a fire department ladder truck with a back driver on each end of the rig. And you only need one soft road or light-loading bridge on your route to mandate a bigger rig like this, and said obstacle is usually on the only/final approach to your destination.....

I wonder why they chose to move the locomotive in one piece instead of breaking it down and moving it in three or four smaller loads. When we moved our GE 70 tonner it went in three loads, trucks on one, carbody on another and the MG sets on a third. In this way the maximum weight of the heaviest load was 70,000 lbs., meaning that a plain jane three axle lowboy could haul it, and not a multi axle trailer equipped with jeeps, police escorts and a huge price tag.

our move cost $5,200, what do you think the C-415 move cost?

There are any number of arguments on both sides: Loading and unloading are quicker and simpler if the unit is kept in one piece, but sometimes it's better to disassemble it and move it in "chunks". When a museum de-accessioned two trolley cars, the interurban was shipped with body on one trailer and trucks on the other, which worked for the group receiving it. On the other hand, the somewhat smaller streetcar was rolled onto the special carrier trailer on its own power and tied down "as is". As least there could be no complaints if it didn't run at its new home.