Markk, good luck on your transport.
The word from Old Sub about transporting by rail would solve any weight problem, but it would be just as costly as a truck haul, and you have to meet the schedule.
First you have to find a dock to load on. It will be in an obscure location that will be up to you to find. Freight cars, flat cars or box cars, are high, and it takes a fixed ramp to do the loading.
Second, you have to order the car. Once it is delivered to the loading dock (who knows when that will be--you are an extremely low-priority customer) you will have a fixed window to get the railcar loaded and the load tied down. If you don't get it loaded, tied down to RR specs, and ready to move within the loading window alotted, you will pay through the nose for a loading delay. And it is up to you to get it loaded and notify the railroad it is ready for inspection and pull.
If you load the vehicle, make 100% absolutely sure you get the tie-down specifications, or it won't move, and you will pay for a reinspection and probably a missed pull.
Once the move is made you will have a short window to unload at your end at an equally obscure, acceptable dock location.
Unless you use rail transportation frequently, it is more trouble than you can imagine. Ship by rail is "transportation friendly" only to the regular customers who spend lotsa money moving lotsa stuff by rail.
Sorry, but having worked for the railroad, I speak from experience.
We were "in-house" shippers and receivers (Maintenance of Way), used company-owned cars, and had a direct line to the Dispatcher and the Trainmaster to assist us in getting stuff moved. It was still a fright.
Sometimes, the most dependable way was to create a "Work Train," which I paid for out of my budget, that I could order around to move cars of material. Expensive (in a sense), but at least I could control the movement and get the material where needed on time.
