Trainman,
Your transformer becomes more impressive as you proceed. While reading, I thought of a couple of war stories. ;-)
About 25 years ago, we had a 115 KV / 230 KV transformer that connected the two switch yards at a power station. The transformer ruptured, and had to be replaced. Fortunately the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR ran right past the station. In fact the road went over the railroad right before entering the gate. I was there the day they brought the new transformer in. It was a huge one. It came in on a depressed flat car, which was pulled onto the siding. Then the riggers came to lift the transformer onto one of those flatbed trucks with lots of axles that independently move to the variences in the road surface. I had seen smaller transformer lifted with cranes and others slid along rails with upside down channels between the transformer and rail. For this one, they lifted it ever so slightly and slid sheets of plywood that they had rubbed Ivory soap all over the lower surface under the transformer. Then they put sheets of plywood on the trailer and rubbed Ivory soap all over the top of the plywood. Then they slid the transformer onto the trailer with the two soaped surfaces sliding against each other.
Once secured, they had to drive up a little knoll to where the transformer was to be positioned. It took probably an hour to go about 100 yards. Fascinating!
The other story concerns the dam for spilled oil. We didn't have any. One day a 115 KV capacitor bank blew up. It threw debris everywhere. Also I spewed mineral oil in probably a 50 foot radius. This when they still had oil with PCB in it. They had to hire a crew to come in and remove all the gravel, the earth about 2 feet deep, the debris, and the concrete pads. This was taken to a hazardous material dump. Then they scrubbed all the adjacent steel, breakers, etc down with something to neutralize. Then they had to rebuild everything.
As before, excellent modeling.
