Show heavy load moving in Colorado The transportation of a giant piece of generating equipment has started through western Colorado according to the Deseret Generation and sion Cooperative operator of the Bonan za power plant The piece of equipment along with its modified flat fIat bed truck weighs close to three quarters of a million pounds Known as a stator the piece of equip equip- equipment equipment ment is the stationary part of the huge generator for the Bonanza power plant A train transported the stator to Mack Colo near Grand Junction The load started its journey Tuesday toward the foot Douglas Pass on Colorado route between Mack and Rangely A snowstorm hit the pass late last week delaying the stators stator's movement Permit difficulties Involving the Bureau of Land Management and the Colorado Department of Transportation delayed the move for about a month Ironically that puts the move back on its original schedule according to officials The company moving the equipment is Almas International of Gardenia Calif Crews worked on permanent and tern temy Improvements such as widening turns and bridges The load will go through Rangely and come into Utah on a county road leading to the town of Bonanza From there it will go north to toa toa a new county road and then west along alonga a way right for a new railroad to the Bonanza plant |