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Nostalgia & History > Interesting photos from an SP munitions train explosion in 1973Date: 02/19/20 02:41 Interesting photos from an SP munitions train explosion in 1973 Author: mp51w From the Tucson Arizona Star newspaper website; https://tucson.com/news/blogs/photo_blog/photos-munitions-explosion-on-tucson-bound-train/collection_f27d5a68-f997-11e4-b5f9-fbbae243407d.html#1
Date: 02/19/20 09:20 Re: Interesting photos from an SP munitions train explosion in 19 Author: WAF ABSM. This and Roseville changed the way bombs were handled by the RRs
Date: 02/19/20 09:34 Re: Interesting photos from an SP munitions train explosion in 19 Author: SPDRGWfan WAF Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > ABSM. This and Roseville changed the way bombs > were handled by the RRs I was living in Davis CA, which was about 35 miles west of Roseville and felt the tremors from the explosion; thought it was an earth quake. Then heard on the news it was an ordinance explosion. Cheers, Jim Date: 02/19/20 17:05 Re: Interesting photos from an SP munitions train explosion in 19 Author: Milwaukee Has anyone walked the site in recent years to see if there are still pieces of torn metal in the desert left from the blasts?
Good thing the blast took place out in the desert rather than when it was traveling through a town or passing an opposing train. Date: 02/19/20 17:10 Re: Interesting photos from an SP munitions train explosion in 19 Author: WAF You have to take the MOW road to reach the area at Fenner
Date: 02/19/20 18:42 Re: Interesting photos from an SP munitions train explosion in 19 Author: usmc1401 When the yard was rebuilt about fifteen years ago by U.P. some bombs were found burried.
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