Here is a link to a photograph of a flatcar carrying what appears to some type of process vessels followed by a flatcar carrying the remains of an Eastern Airlines aircraft.
http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/photos/sp/sp565528_brian_ehni.jpg
Or, it’s another consignment of UFOs on their way to “Area 51” as a D-I-Y kit for fit-out and launch, etc. . . .
I’ll let somebody do the jokes about the shackles in the old airliner body . . . [:-^]
- PDN.
Probably way off the mark, but they look like what we have at our water treatment plant here in town.
Mook
Would there be any titanium in that fuselage, as there is in airelons? If so, it’s worth a lot of $$$.
Doubt it as too expensive for civilian aircraft.
They look like electrical substation circiut breakers with out the insulators installed. They would fit into the flat spots atop each tank. They would be in the 345 kilovolt to 500 kilovolt range.
Since there is no date on the photo a guess will have to be in order. In the early 1970s an Eastern Airlines DC-9 had a hard landing at FLL and another Eastern DC-9 fuselage burned up in Atlanta. The cockpit from the burned 9 and the fuselage of the hard landing was combined to make 1 plane out of two.(this was a time of Vietnam and commercial passenger aircraft were rationed). That appears to be the burned out section that was returned to douglas aircraft in long beach. (just a guess)
BTW the two aircraft numbers were EAL 916 & 961 so it was called 916-1/2 by EAL wags but flew fairly good.