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Strange load for a desert railway?

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Posted by Capt Bob Johnson on Thursday, March 6, 2008 2:01 PM
Which brings to mind the old adage that "Truth is stranger than fiction!"
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Posted by cabbage on Thursday, March 6, 2008 6:21 AM
No Vic,

BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!!!

There was a an expedition to the Dead Sea that took a midget submarine to examine some structures at the bottom of it. Because of the situation between Israel and Jordon the sub could only work on the Israeli side of the sea. In order for the Jordanian Security Forces to monitor where the sub was they painted it yellow -so that it could be easily seen by the hovering helicoptors.

The main problem was getting the sub to sink and the pressure of the highly saline water at depths of 50 feet -equivalent to 350 feet of sea water.

"There is the Wierd, the Strange, and then there is Reality"....

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Posted by Mr_Ash on Thursday, March 6, 2008 3:24 AM

Nice hehe

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Posted by Cederstrand on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 11:39 PM

Could be something from an old black & white Buck Rogers episode.  

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Posted by CPT Stryker on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 9:39 PM

No, George didn't sail across the Delaware in it. However, he did live in it along with three others by the name of Ringo, Paul and John as they sailed beneath the Sea of Time, the Sea of Science and the Sea of Monsters and eventually back to Pepperland after an almost disasterous encounter with the Vacuum Thrask.

Under no circumstances should you let the Blue Meanies know it's location !

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Posted by tangerine-jack on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 7:54 PM
So that's what happened to Professor Danforth's tank/helicopter/submarine contraption Flying Whatchamajig from Three Stooges in Orbit.

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Posted by ttrigg on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 7:29 PM

Looks remarkably like something found floating half submerged off sunny sandy eggo coast a few moths back.  It disappeared shortly after a few teens were seen in the area.

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Posted by Capt Bob Johnson on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 6:28 PM
I can confirm that George didn't cross the Delaware in that contraption!   The ice would have sheared the lookee seey things off!  (Periscopes???)
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Posted by Coogler Rail Line on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 4:43 PM

I guess that they are shipping it to area 51.  You may want to scatch build a UFO and aliens also!Shock [:O]

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Posted by dwbeckett on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 4:16 PM

Looke like one of them there nuclear thinges to me, maybe Capt Bob has a better insight from his day's plowing the DelawarePirate [oX)]

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Strange load for a desert railway?
Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 3:57 PM

Borracho Dispatch, March 3, 1937

Well seams a couple of ol' prospecters come across this up in the back hills of Borracho, also seams no one can figure out how it got out in the middle of a stinkin desert! Worse off no one seams to know who made or what it is. From the looks or her shes been their for a few years, maybe decades.

One of the school kids said its a rocketship from Mars, till someone pointed out the propeller. The Mayor of Borracho suggested it was a newfangled Holland Navy Submarine that the Navy musta "abandoned", huh?  Why the heck was it abandoned in the middle of the desert? We contacted the Navy via telephone, the person on the other end told us we musta been drunk, The Smithy and the Sheriff finally got her opened, found only enough room for 2 people inside, and the logbook, most of the pages were missing or was writtten in a code of some sort but they did find a single sentance in the notebook in English written by a certain Sgt Pepper, it said, "Test run of 1/4 scale prototype succesfull, ready to commence full scale construction" Their was some other references to a "sea of holes" that none of us here could understand. Another school kid said that to get where it was, it musta flown their! Utter Rubbish! we all know submarines cant fly!

Well anyway here she is, all loaded waiting to be chained down and shipped to the Poindexters at the Navy H.Q. in Anapolis, Maryland, least thats where they say their shipping her. Yeap, they finally stood up and took notice after we wired them a couple of photo's, seems the British Navy is also very interested for some durn reason.


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