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Nostalgia & History > Beale AFB, California centercabDate: 03/23/17 13:00 Beale AFB, California centercab Author: Mr-Beechcroft Is this unit still there? Lots less fuel to move around now with the demise of the late-great SR-71. This was taken back in 1988.
 Date: 03/23/17 14:03 Re: Beale AFB, California centercab Author: SCAX3401 It was there about four or five years ago. Haven't heard of it being moved.
Date: 03/23/17 14:05 Re: Beale AFB, California centercab Author: bq23dash7 Cool critter. Nice SAC shield and band on that car in the background- was it for some sort of training? Missile-related?
John Date: 03/23/17 15:01 Re: Beale AFB, California centercab Author: miralomarail A photo of USAF # 1668 Beale AFB Jan 1st 2016
 Date: 03/23/17 15:09 Re: Beale AFB, California centercab Author: desertjack I sure do miss the Blackbird, or as we called it at Kadena, Habu.
Date: 03/23/17 16:15 Re: Beale AFB, California centercab Author: Ray_Murphy bq23dash7 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Cool critter. Nice SAC shield and band on that > car in the background- was it for some sort of > training? Missile-related? Looks like it might be a power car. SAC had two types of rail-mobile train equipment I've heard about - flight simulators (which were probably history when this picture was taken), and mission evaluation (bomb targeting). Ray Date: 03/23/17 22:12 Re: Beale AFB, California centercab Author: atsf121 I remember a news article about Travis AFB and their railroad. Seems like it had a centercab, too. Never did see it in operation unfortunately.
Date: 03/23/17 23:08 Re: Beale AFB, California centercab Author: miralomarail GE 80 T at Travis AFB May 1982
 Date: 03/24/17 05:46 Re: Beale AFB, California centercab Author: BarstowRiff At last report still active delivering aviation gas for U-2's. The U-2 program has been repeatedly slated for termination and repeatedly extended. Latest date I heard was sometime in 2019. I believe this is the last active USAF rail operation in the lower 48 with the recent closure of the one at Shaw AFB, South Carolina.
Date: 03/24/17 07:07 Re: Beale AFB, California centercab Author: LocoPilot750 Here's 1672 being shipped out of Forbes AFB in Pauline, KS, just south of Topeka. It was there for years, and left when they closed the base in the early 70's sometime. Always wondered where it went from there. When I took this photo, it was entrained in the Pauline Switcher, going back to Topeka.
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