Oversized Shipments and Wind Turbine Components
The NPCC is positioned to serve as a transload and staging area for wind towers, blades, nacelles and other equipment associated with the power industry. With access to both BNSF and Canadian Pacific Railway, the facility has a 5 acre transload facility and an additional 180 acres that can be used for a lay down and storage site.
The five acre transload facility has a crushed concrete, level surface. The facility has lighting and is fenced. The roads leading into and out of the facility to I-94 (east/west) and Hwy 83 (north/south) are considered a heavy haul corridor and were built to accomodate dimensional loads.
Facility Characteristics
- 4000' of rail
- 5 acres-fenced with lighting
- 183 acres of level greenfield for laydown and staging
- All utilities are underground
- Concrete pad adjacent to the rail inside the transload area -pad is 500' X 60' and rated at 6000 psi
- Flexible terms
- Equipment, labor and trucking services available
Trucking
Permitting Policy, Road Maps for Nondivisable Loads, Vertical Clearance Maps are available through:
North Dakota Highway Patrol 701-328-2621
City of Bismarck 701-222-6580
Burleigh County 701-221-6870
For additional information or to begin planning your wind turbine shipping project, please contact us at 701-255-6700.