Superload to resume journey across Pennsylvania on Wednesday night

A 294-ton, 213-foot-long superload will continue its journey across 400-plus miles of Pennsylvania roadways after being parked for three days in Elk County due to inclement weather.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation reported that the journey was scheduled to resume 10 p.m. Wednesday.

It will travel from Route 948 in Elk County to Route 66 in Forest County, then to Route 322 in Clarion County and into Venango County.

From there it is expected to travel along Route 62 in Venango County to Route 173 in Mercer County, then to Interstate 80 to Ohio.

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The superload will move as a rolling slowdown using two traffic lanes, which will result in traffic stoppages and travel delays. The majority of the transport will take place during nighttime hours.

Perkins Specialized Transportation Contracting of Becker, Minnesota is transporting the load. The trip started Jan. 12 in West Milton, a hamlet in Saratoga County, New York, and is now scheduled to end Sunday at Alaron Nuclear Services in Wampum, Lawrence County.

The freight: An empty steel tank decommissioned in 1996 at the D1G Prototype reactor plant on the Naval Nuclear Laboratory's Kenneth A. Kesselring Site in West Milton.

A PennDOT spokeswoman said the tank will be disassembled, recycled and disposed of by Alaron, which does low-level radioactive materials processing.

A superload by Pennsylvania standards is a vehicle or combination with a nondivisible load that has a gross weight exceeding 201,000 pounds, or a total length exceeding 160 feet, or a total width exceeding 16 feet.

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