I see a lot of Boeng 727 airplane bodys (don’t know how to spell
fusalodge.) on the Boeng train, three and four at a time go by the house
on their way to Everette Washington to have their wings mounted.
I was just wondering how many people flying in a 727 realize that the
plane had gone through the 8 mile long Cascade Tunnel and others
on a train?
railwayray
Ray Phelps
894 Sagle Road
Sagle Idaho 83860-9211
Don’t think they still make 727’s (on an aerospace bulletin board they are called “Tri-Motors”, and it took me the longest time to realize they didn’t mean the vintage Ford Tri-Motors I see at the Oshkosh fly-in and at museums. Maybe they carry 737 parts (the 2-engine job).
Does the Japanese Bullet Train (New Tokaido Line) count as an airplane in a tunnel? What people forget is that the Shinkansen (Bullet Train line) is not just high-speed, it is a mountain railroad because the coastal lands are highly-developed real estate and the only free land is in the inland mountains making up most of Japan. Half the line is on viaduct; the other half is in tunnel. It was a neat ride, but it was something to realize that I was 1) travelling in the world’s fastest subway train, and 2) going faster underground than the single-engine airplane I owned at the time with some other guys could go through the air.
Hmmm. Sort of “If you flew a train brought you”
Jay
Uh,remember that there are several special rail cars dedicated to
hauling fuselages for Boeing. Have been for a ‘few’ years.
And I like/agree with jeaton’s remark. Maybe more people
will take the train.[:)]
The rocket engines for the Space Shuttle all move rail from Utah where the get assembled to Cape Canaveral where they get mounted to the shuttle.
Canadair in Montreal (now part of Bombardier Aerospace) started manufacturing the major assemblies for the aft tail section of the Boeing 767 in 1980. These large assemblies were shipped from Montreal to Boeing’s plant at Everett, Washington, in special railcars, which had to move back and forth to a very tight schedule to meet Boeing’s aircraft production schedules.
And that’s why the Challenger disaster happened, because the solid boosters have to be made in sections so they can be shipped by rail.
check out this site:
http://krugtales.50megs.com/rrpictale/p000514/p000514.htm
scroll down a pic or two.
Boeing lists the 727 as an aircraft they used to make http://www.boeing.com/commercial/overview/overview3.html
All of the aircraft parts cars that Boeing owns had numbers that started with 7x7 followed by two or three more digits, with x being a number. It appears that the cars number tells what type of aircraft they are assigned to. All of the cars I have see are in the 76700, 77700, 767000, or 777000 series.
I wonder what they will do if they ship parts by rail for their business jet line (BBJ) or the future 7E7.
The aircraft parts cars can be seen at both the Everett Plant and the Renton plant. Renton constructs the 737 and the few remaining 757s yet to be built. If they are major fuselage parts they are shipped from Wichita, Ks. Everett constructs the 747,767,777 models and if the 7E7 is constructed it will become the 787 and will probably be constructed at Renton. Boeing still builds 717 aircraft former MD-80 and MD-90 models at the Long Beach plant.