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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:00 AM
Hey Tim! Don't have enough security on my road to protect a gold car.Easter
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:51 AM
David,what a find! thank you,thank you!!!!!!
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Posted by TurboOne on Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:59 AM
Cool article David, you are most articulate. [:)]

Easter I like the explosive car, but my favorite is the las vegas money car or the gold car. Both have windows to see the load. Now that would be a sight in the real world.

Tim
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Posted by FJ and G on Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:47 AM
Here's my article. Photos are somewhere in a shoe box.

http://www.navyleague.org/sea_power/may_02_17.php
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Posted by FJ and G on Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:44 AM
Easter,

YES! There's plants in Crane, Indiana, Norfolk and some other areas that have ammo and ships it by rail to Blount Island Florida.

I visited the facility (in my line of work) and wrote an article about it. They even designed a reversing loop on the island because in the past, backing ammo trains out of there caused a shutdown of all traffic.

Blount Is, BTW, is where Naval ships (contracted ships) take the ammo, vehicles, etc to Iraq and other places for Soldiers and Marines.
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High Explosives
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:30 AM
I have a lionel explosive box car,and from time to time,I set it out on a siding just to make sure that the money I keep poring into our defence fund is reaping it's rewards.In the real world,however,are high explosives transported by rail to munitions facilities & proving grounds????? thanks Easter

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