> There is a slight problem of transportability from Deggendorf to Karlsruhe: The tank is too big for motorways, and the canal between the rivers Rhine and Danube has to be ruled out, too. Thus, instead of a journey of about 400 km, the spectrometer has to travel nearly 9000 km as indicated in [the map](http://i.imgur.com/LQuqWnp.jpg).
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Those struts kind of make it look like a hands on hips pose.
Holy crap that is a tight turn there
Found [some info:](http://www.katrin.kit.edu/213.php)
> There is a slight problem of transportability from Deggendorf to Karlsruhe: The tank is too big for motorways, and the canal between the rivers Rhine and Danube has to be ruled out, too. Thus, instead of a journey of about 400 km, the spectrometer has to travel nearly 9000 km as indicated in [the map](http://i.imgur.com/LQuqWnp.jpg).
Edit:
The place is Leopoldshafen, Germany.
[More pics](http://www.fogonazos.es/2008/05/how-to-move-200-ton-spectrometer-across.html) from google-fu.
This type of thing happens surprisingly often, for example airbus wings, wind turbines.
I see an opportunity for airships to go A>B with (hopefully) less problems.