For $2.5 million you get a staircase, too.

Last night about 8:30 I saw the most incredible truck I've ever seen, right on our own 138th Street. It was turning north on to Morris. The whole thing was easily longer than a city block, no exaggeration.

"What the hell is that?" I asked one of the guys in the chartreuse ConEd vests.

"It's a transformer transport." he said, waving me back up on the sidewalk. Whoa. "How big is the transformer?"

"Roughly the size of a five story walk-up tenement building.", he said, not looking at me while signaling the driver. The 12-wheel steering gangs were so huge they needed hydraulic arms to turn them. It could barely make the corner.

The cost of a truck like this? "About 2 and a half million." It even had an access stair to climb up the back. Amazing.