{"id":290845,"date":"2026-09-21T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290845\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:28:08","slug":"second-superload-to-crawl-through-western-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290845\/","title":{"rendered":"Second superload to crawl through Western Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superload is second of dozens to make trek across Western Pennsylvania to data center site<\/p>\n<p>WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A second superload is set to travel through Western Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The superload will travel through Armstrong, Westmoreland, and Indiana counties before ending its journey at the new data center being built in Homer City.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The first superload took two days to travel from Schenley Township to Homer City, with people lining the streets in several communities along the route to watch.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">PennDOT said the second superload is scheduled to leave at 9 a.m.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">There will be around 50 trips like this between now and January as crews transport parts to the work site.<\/p>\n<p>The Route of the Superload From PennDOT<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">The second load will travel from Schenley to Route 66 through Leechburg and Apollo to Delmont then on to Route 22. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">It will continue to the Westmoreland\/Indiana County line on Route 22 towards Blairsville. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">It will then pull off at a staging area near Blairsville to install additional equipment to continue transport.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">The superload will start at 7 p.m. along Route 22\/119. Drivers west of the Indiana County line should use the detour route.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">As the superload travels along Route 22\/119 past Blairsville to its staging area along Route 119 drivers will be unable to pass the superload and can expect to travel at a very slow speed. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"11\">All vehicles travelling on Route 22\/119 west of the Indiana County line will detour using Bairdstown Road\/West Market Street to East Market Street\/Old William Penn Highway to the Route 22\/119 interchange.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"12\">Drivers east of the Indiana County line should expect to encounter a rolling slowdown on Route 22 East while the superload is crossing the bridge over the Conemaugh River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Superload is second of dozens to make trek across Western Pennsylvania to data center site WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8289,86707,6849,3069,1245,119454,16156,3431,28,30,29,5607,120626,120628,120627,119453,120629,1419,12931,5910,120630],"class_list":["post-290845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-armstrong-county","tag-blairsville","tag-crew","tag-data-center","tag-driver","tag-homer-city","tag-indiana-county","tag-penndot","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-route","tag-schenley-township","tag-second-superload","tag-staging-area","tag-superload","tag-west-market-street","tag-western-pennsylvania","tag-westmoreland","tag-westmoreland-county","tag-work-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}