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A massive 108m load on the move. 30 January 2018

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5 years 11 months ago #193912 by Roderick Smith
Roderick

Melbourne Express, Monday, May 28, 2018
Petrol station sit-in The owner of a service station in Melbourne's north is staging a sit-in as he protests the closure of the APCO Epping and Thomastown station stores.
Frank Eid, 65, who has run the two franchises for 15 years, claimed on radio station 3AW the company had "turned power off for five nights, put us out of trading and 16 families (are) out of jobs".
An APCO spokesman told 3AW it was a legal matter and the company was not prepared to comment further.
Success at the VicRoads office earlier this morning, after part of a generator continued its three-day journey from Port Melbourne to Loy Yang B in Traralgon. The 558-tonne load is moving at about 20km/h.
On 27.5.85 Flagstaff station was opened to the public, marking the completion of the city loop. Here is one of our favourite home videos, an update on the construction from the 1970s.
4.35 The oversize load is now parked at Yarragon weighbridge. It'll be on the move again tonight from 10pm on its way to Loy Yang.
27.5 ch 7 A superload towing a 256-tonne generator has begun the long journey home from the Port of Melbourne to the Loy Yang Power Station. The load is 7.3 metres wide, five metres high and measures a distance of 108 metres - longer than an Airbus A380. (7 News).
< www.theage.com.au/melbourne-news/melbour...20180528-p4zhuo.html >

with a link to a channel 7 video clip of the move leaving on Saturday night . Here is just one freeze frame.

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