Au contraire, the rocket and launch pad is transported from the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) via rail. A few photos and a track plan is on page 32 of 45 original track plans by Bernard Kempinski it's track plan 14.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Yeah. But my Rooski buddies are hauling an actual rocket. All your guys have got is a couple of air conditioners!
Ed
Staying in tune with Ed:
High and wide:
Very interesting!
https://www.pinterest.com/astrogater11111/heavy-duty-flat-depressed-deck-and-specialty-railc/
Alton Junction
Cool.
track geometry car
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
More unusual loads.
http://www.nmra.org/sites/default/files/d9m.pdf
The one in the first picture is slightly different from the second.
rrinker OK, what's the deal with that 'streamlined' caboose? It looks like someone replaced the cupola with a small camper. --Randy
OK, what's the deal with that 'streamlined' caboose? It looks like someone replaced the cupola with a small camper.
--Randy
Actually, that one's referred to as the "volkswagen" caboose. Only one, but I think it was the inspiration for the more planar ones (GN X1-X30):
7j43k Oh, yeah. There's this covered hopper, too: And, going into passenger cars, one of (formerly) GN's famous "ultra short" combines (ex-GN 475): But wait, there's more: The above was made from a Baldwin VO-1000 diesel switcher--made for a very durable caboose. All but one of the above have been available as HO models. Ed
Oh, yeah. There's this covered hopper, too:
And, going into passenger cars, one of (formerly) GN's famous "ultra short" combines (ex-GN 475):
But wait, there's more:
The above was made from a Baldwin VO-1000 diesel switcher--made for a very durable caboose.
All but one of the above have been available as HO models.
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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What are the odds?
There were only ten of these (SAL 20200-20209) plus one VERY similar on the GN (either 29000 or 29001--I always mix up the two):
Oh, yeah. I found one other similar: SAL 20053. Interior height is lower.
If you want really unique rolling stock, check out the rosters of some narrow gauge loggers, on both sides of the Pacific. Stuff was cobbled together from other people's junk, no two alike and a good many that would make a Class I's carknockers cringe.
Toward the end of its operating life, the Kiso Forest Railway (Nagano-ken, Japan) ran rolling stock put together on old wood-frame disconnect trucks - everything from gondolas to passenger equipment. Somewhere in my junkpile I have a photo of the fire train - a motley assortment of tanks similar to residential oil-burner tanks, each mounted on either a four-wheel disconnect or a platform of planks nailed to the log bunks of two disconnects.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - including the Kiso Rintetsu)
csxns BRAKIE Southern boxcar in the photo was used for hauling tobbacco At one time here in NC they hauled furniture in the same boxcar.
BRAKIE Southern boxcar in the photo was used for hauling tobbacco
At one time here in NC they hauled furniture in the same boxcar.
Great to know..
I have no real proof but,been told those cars also hauled watermelon in large shipping gaylords fasten to the pallet...I never could verify that lading one way or the other.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
By the way, both of the Southern cars have been offered as Ambroid kits. The doors can actually slide up on the all-door boxcar model.
BRAKIESouthern boxcar in the photo was used for hauling tobbacco
Russell
Here are some I think are unique.
Every freight car is to a degree unique in its own way by the lading it was designed to carry. A 89' boxcar can carry autoparts as can a smaller 60 autoparts car but,there are other 60' boxcars design to carry light ladings that cube out before it weighs out.
Some cars like that Southern boxcar in the photo was used for hauling tobbacco from tobacco auction/warehouses to the tobacco manufacturers.
http://www.garlic.com/~tomd/
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Here is a picture of a DODX boxcar with the side doors down at one end. I saw any number fo these at varioua military facilities that I worked at.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/24589/Picture%20002.jpg
spend some time looking at the fallen flags site all kinds of interesting equipment there.
Very interesting, thanks!
Long flat cars retired from intermodal service which have movable bolsters on the decks - meant for transporting wrecked freight cars.
All door boxcars. I saw one a few years back on the CN presumably carrying lumber.
Carbon black cars are certainly noteworthy, and look somehow more hulking due to their black paint.
Open loads of almost any kind are per se interesting cars.
I did once see a Schnabel car in operation. Wow. Too bad it was after dark and too late for photography (the pre digital era).
Dave Nelson
All rail cars are unique, they all have a different type, initial and number.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
A unique boxcar (design):
And this one, one of the few boxcars with portholes (for hauling tobacco):
And this is a pretty unusual stock car:
And finally. I don't have any pictures handy, but there were a very few 40' boxcars that had two 10' doors per side. Great Northern had one, and SAL had a few.
The helium tank cars are one of my faverits. Saw them twice being moved to the Ames research center on Moffet Field in Palo Alto, California to cool the lasers and other equipment.
Here is a picture of one lettered for the US Bureau of Mines
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2468521
Thanks again!