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Turbine blades

Tribune Staff

| January 17, 2023

Printed in the January 18, 2023 edition

Photo by Ted FerkenhoffThis Apache Railroad train loaded with wind turbine blades was headed for the Chevelon Butte Wind Farm last month. The train was carrying 27 blades, each blade is 225-feet long. The blades are brought to Snowflake by rail and then trucked individually to the wind farm south of Winslow.