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Western Railroad Discussion > Blast Off . . .Date: 09/22/20 18:01 Blast Off . . . Author: SCKP187 Sunday the 20th, armed with good information, I was able to catch a special move through Oklahoma. UP was running a dedicated train of rocket boosters and equipment boxcars being returned to Utah.
1. UP 6629-8171 SMECO rocket booster special at Delaware OK 2. UP 8193-5291 with mt ethanol cars headed towards Iowa Falls IA running just ahead of the special, shown at Oologah OK Thanks for looking Brian Stevens    Date: 09/22/20 19:03 Re: Blast Off . . . Author: King_Coal Good catch. I hadn't seen the yellow UP boxcars until a posting a few days ago. Makes for an interesting train.
Date: 09/22/20 19:26 Re: Blast Off . . . Author: Ritzville Nice catch of the rocket train Brian! Interesting train!
Larry Date: 09/22/20 23:30 Re: Blast Off . . . Author: oyw Agree, nice shots of a very interesting move!
Date: 09/23/20 00:08 Re: Blast Off . . . Author: jgilmore Is the engineer a rocket man or a rocket scientist? Sorry, too easy...
JG Date: 09/23/20 07:50 Re: Blast Off . . . Author: 2-10-2 Who's SMECO? I used to work for the company that now makes boosters for Delta4 and others, but don't recognize the name.
Date: 09/23/20 09:27 Re: Blast Off . . . Author: CPB284 2-10-2 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Who's SMECO? I used to work for the company that > now makes boosters for Delta4 and others, but > don't recognize the name. SMECO is the UP train symbol. Special (S) Memphis, TN (ME) to Corrine, UT (CO). These cars are empty after moving solid rocket booster segments from Northrop Grumman in Utah to Kennedy Space Center a few months ago. The booster segments will be used on the Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis 1 mission sometime next year. They also moved two test segments for Northrop Grumman's omegA rocket. These cars were originally used for hauling SRB segments on the Space Shuttle program, and SLS is using an updated larger version of the Shuttle SRBs. Date: 09/23/20 11:47 Re: Blast Off . . . Author: bmarti7 Great stuff Brian. Thanks for posting.
Bismarck Bill Date: 09/24/20 09:47 Re: Blast Off . . . Author: 2-10-2 Thank you. The Morton-Thiokol plant next to the original transcontinental railroad ROW.
CPB284 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 2-10-2 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Who's SMECO? I used to work for the company > that > > now makes boosters for Delta4 and others, but > > don't recognize the name. > > SMECO is the UP train symbol. Special (S) Memphis, > TN (ME) to Corrine, UT (CO). Date: 09/24/20 18:29 Re: Blast Off . . . Author: SouthWestRailCams |