<p>Crowds gathered in Melbourne on February 3 to witness the arrival of a huge generator-carrying convoy, which weighed the equivalent of a jumbo jet.</p><p>The 108 metre truck convoy hauled a spare generator weighing about 256 tonnes from the Loy Yang brown coal-fired power station, according to the The Sydney Morning Herald</a>.</p><p>The entire convoy weighed 650 tonnes, or the equivalent of a jumbo jet, and crawled across the countryside and through the state capital around 15-20 kilometres an hour (9-12 miles per hour), the Herald reported. The journey reportedly took about 27 hours to complete.</p><p>The generator component travelled almost 200 kilometres (124 miles) from Latrobe Valley to Port Melbourne over three nights from February 1.</p><p>The spare component, which was taken offline at the power station in October 2017, was scheduled to be shipped to Germany for maintenance. Credit: Schony747 via Storyful</p><br />
