I work for a moving company, and we have been called in to assist another moving company that is moving a new generator and two transformers to the power plant at Nebraska City, Nebraska. The generator and transformers came up the river on a barge from Houston. We unloaded the 3 items off of the barge last week at the State Park in Brownville Nebraska. Then we had a big rain storm and the river rose and flooded the park. The water did not hurt anything, we heard the storm warnings and moved the generator and all the other equipment out of the park and above flood level. It finally dried off enough that we were able to move the generator. Started yesterday, had a delay (could"nt make a hill :-) ) had to park it overnight and finished moving it the rest of the way today. They are going to bring the trailer back to Brownville tomorrow so that we can load up a transformer and be ready to roll again on monday.I took a few pictures and have put them online. Unfortunately I did not get any pictures taken of the gen. and transformers being unloaded.:-( It was quite a process getting a 55x200 barge swung broadside against the current and held in position! Had a tugboat holding the barge in positon plus a coupe of big winches anchored on shore. Also had a couple of winch trucks holding the barge against the shore. Then a crane had to set the 4 steel bridges in place from the barge to the shore. We also had 4 big 6" pumps on the barge to pump water into and out of it while the generator and transformers were being unloaded to keep the bow from rising too much when the weight of the generator and transformers was removed. I did not think we would, but we managed to get the barge in position, set up the ramps, remove the generator and transformers one at a time, remove the ramps, let the barge loose and moor it by about 9pm, we started at 6am too. Then came the fun part, me and 6 other local guys stayed up untill 4am the following morning clearing the barge of about 100 1x4x8 inch steel plates that were welded to the deck to prevent things from sliding around, plus another 50 D-rings that were used as tie-downs, then grind everything down smooth, so that the tug could leave with the barge as soon as the sun came up. That night was one long grind, pardon the pun :-) I got 5 hours of sleep and was back out there helping to pack stuff up and get it out of the park because of the expected rain. Got it all wrapped up and finally made it home for some well-deserved rest. I"ll tell you what, after being up for 24 hours straight, I was dead beat -_-zzzzz 
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