Near the Boeing plant, Everett, Washington?
[%-)] Does this look like the evergreen state ?
Battle Mountain Nevada?
Is that a rhetorical question? [(-D] I was looking at the airplanes, of 2 types, in neat rows. So, it looked like maybe it was near an airplane factory. I don’t know if Boeing is in the evergreeny part of Washington, or the deserty part. I went through Washington when I was 11, on a Greyhound bus, in the dark.
If you’re trying to give me a subtle hint, that my answer may be a little off, my second guess would be Reno, Nevada.
Boeing in the Seattle area; but this doesn’t look like the Eastern part of Washington either. (Plus I don’t think UP hauls any coal in Washington.)
Mojave Airport in Mojave, CA
Bingo !!! This is the Trona coal loads heading out of Mojave on the Jawbone branch tward the connection at Searles with the Trona railroad. Good job !!!
MS- I didn’t mean to offend… but …[%-)]
Not unusual for the Airlines to store planes at Mojave as the desert does a great job of preserving them. They can be stored there for a variety of reasons a downturn in business, eliminating a certain type from an Airlines fleet and sent there for resale, or in some cases conversion to freighters. The third reason is scrapping and that is the case with many of the older types.
There is a similar storage facility west of Phoenix, again in the hot dry arid desert. Tuned in to late to guess today.
Al - in - Stockton
I, too, tuned in late. Somewhere behind the rolling stock is the Scale Composites operation, where Burt Rutan and company are preparing to make space flight available to tourists who don’t want to stop over at the ISS (or pay for their ticket in rubles.)
There’s a similar facility at Marana, AZ (closer to Tucson than to Phoenix) but it has a more diverse mix of smaller planes. And then there’s Tucson’s pride, the military aircraft storage site at Davis-Monthan AFB…
Somebody seems to think that deserts make good places to store out-of-service aircraft…
Chuck
In the coming months it looks like there will be a whole lot more planes heading to the desert for storage.
Locomotives can be stored there too.
UP stored quite a few DDA40Xs in that area, perhaps Yermo?
There is also a place west of Phoenix, closer to Avondale/Goodyear, that used to be an old Navy Air Base that is used to store aircraft. At any given time, you can see DC10s, DC9s, 727s, L1011s and other such aircraft parked on the tarmac there. We drive by it on the way to see the races at PIR.
Davis-Monthan is HUGE.
As an aside (for trivia buffs), in the last episode of the first season of the old CBS ‘Airwolf’ series, entitled ‘To Snare a Wolf’, the ‘boneyard’ was the Mojave Airport.
I might have worked and ridden on/in one or more of those red-tailed DC9-10s and DC9-30s in that photo. [:(] Does that mean I’m next?