Interesting, certain amount of BS here like no cameras for 20 years, maybe they don't know about Modern Marvels. Anyway enjoy.
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Maybe they meant TV news cameras.
Think industrial espionage, then the "no cameras" rule makes sense. Lots of proprietary testing going on out there along with government testing. Pueblo's well hidden secret on the backside of Baculite Mesa, on a former Army Ammunition/Chemical Depot railroad is still a pretty secure and remote area. (Cactus needles do a number on tires in the high desert - know this from experience out there doing route surveys - who needs barbed wire?)
NBC obsessing over Russians with cameras ?
mudchicken Think industrial espionage, then the "no cameras" rule makes sense. Lots of proprietary testing going on out there along with government testing. NBC obsessing over Russians with cameras ?
Think industrial espionage, then the "no cameras" rule makes sense. Lots of proprietary testing going on out there along with government testing.
Except of course they have an open house every year in connection with the Research Review. Cameras are allowed and any proprietary testing is either well hidden or has a staff member in the vicinity to request no photography.
The facility was never part of the Pueblo Army Depot. The land was donated to the State of Colorado by a local rancher (forget his name) that leases it to the DOT.
There were two potential sites for the facility (remember there were no thoughts of railroad testing when it was planned) the other was in southern New Jersey in the Cape May area. Colorado was chosen for political reasons the details of which I forget. I once got the whole story from a member of the selection committee.
Take the Pueblo Army Depot railroad away and there is no TTC. (Granted most of the TTC is outside the PAD. It is really "empty" out there.)
(Less than a dozen of the 72 sections in the two townships that the bulk of TTC sits on were ever patented or sold by a private individual)
mudchicken Take the Pueblo Army Depot railroad away and there is no TTC. (Granted most of the TTC is outside the PAD. It is really "empty" out there.) (Less than a dozen of the 72 sections in the two townships that the bulk of TTC sits on were ever patented or sold by a private individual)
once again remember that the facility was not intended to be a railroad test facility, so that railroad connection to the outside world was pretty much a moot point then. It wasn't untill about 5 years into its life, when it was no longer the High Speed Ground Test Center that a railroad connection became important.
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