Dozens of Hydro One crews, leader vehicles, police officers and Mammoet employees worked through the night to bring the 70 foot long, 33 foot high, 632,000 pound piece of equipment to Shell Canada on the St. Clair Parkway.

Officials had to take a 16 hour route – the vehicles were moving at the pace of a walk – to get from the Sarnia Harbour to Shell because a small bridge over Talford Creek wouldn’t bear the weight of the unit. It took 21 months of planning to get the details of the move down pat.

The unit made its way down Hill Street in Corunna in complete darkness as the power had to be cut to over 2,200 homes so the lines could be lifted to let the 33 foot high unit through. The crews were stuck between Highway 40 and the outskirts of Corunna for about two hours while hydro crews worked to lift the lines.

Officials from Shell say the operation was complete by 3:45 am Sunday – just 15 minutes earlier than the company had earlier estimated.