Space Shuttle Era: Crawler Transporter

[vonderheide]

My grandfather was a welding engineer at Marion power shovel on this project. Sad to see that it is no longer used after the last space mission.

[belzelga2]

I little bit of locomotive technology with the Alco prime movers that's still running hard. Even when they showed it on Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe it was sweet.

[ce1lo]

What's the fuel economy?

[Wilda13east]

@ce1lo 32 ft per gallon dude

[epistte]

Each one of the links in the crawlers weigh about 1 ton.

I am surprised that NASA hasn't updated the Alcos to a EMD 256 or a 710 motor because the ACLOs are known to be smoky and somewhat unreliable.

[1965cyclone39]

Chuck Norris's wagon.

[orangeshirtguyUF]

So what you are saying is, you wouldn't want this to run over your foot

[skateboy159]

@orangeshirtguyUF its like i dare u stick ur foot under it then when it happens its like what foot