High Explosives

Classic Toy Trains Forum
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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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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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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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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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David,what a find! thank you,thank you!!!

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Hey Tim! Don’t have enough security on my road to protect a gold car.Easter