Model Railroading > Nuclear Waste Train

On my 3-rail O-gauge layout, which I call the Mendacity Canyon Railroad (Mendacity means untruthful), I like to feature the unusual. The following are pictures of a train delivering nuclear waste to the Yucci Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump. I have retired and I need to move to smaller digs, so I have to downsize my railroad hobby. This train is for sale. If you are interested send me a PM with your e-mail address and I will send you details.
Bill Pyper
Salem, Oregon
 

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The set includes one Williams GP-38, one gondola with dirty dirt, one gondola with cases of waste, one fenced-flat with waste casks, and one SP caboose. Included are a Lionel steam shovel and an HO gondola for a tunnel car.

 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/19 17:07 by wjpyper.

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Cute! But not quite the Nuke trains I would see working the third trick at Davis Tower on SP's Cal-P running between Nevada and the Port Chicago CA, always in the wee hours of the night. Usually two "Tunnel Motors", two all grey, unmarked  covered hopper-like "nuke" cars with slope sheets facing downward instead of upward and an unmaked blue "escort car" (wide vision caboose). Speed was restricted to 25 mph on Espee's "speedway." (I took photos, but the slides came out blank?) At the time, Davis had declared itself a "Nuclear Free Zone"! :)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/19 17:25 by RRBaron.

That's why I call it "Mendacity." Blank slides? Did you take the lens cover off?BP 

Yes, I had lost my lens cover long ago. They sure looked like they were way over exposed. What could it have been?  



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/19 18:32 by RRBaron.

RRBaron Wrote:
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> Yes, I had lost my lens cover long ago. The
> slooked like they were way over exposed. What
> could it have been?  

Radiation could do that, but that stuff was supposedly shielded to protect the public. Maybe not.
BP
 

Here is a post to the car that RRBaron mentioned

ATMX cars 

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,4569126,4569973#msg-4569973

 

Tom Daspit
Morgan Hill, CA
Tom's Trains

Here's some photos I took of the equipment at the Amarillo RR Museum.  This equipment used to serve the nearby Pantex facility where the "special weapons" were assembled.

The first photo is a roster shot of one of the guard cars.  These cars had gun ports in the cupola, and also had lots of communications gear and external lighting.
The second photo is a 3/4 view of one of the transport cars.  The Department of Energy painted these cars in railroad colors in later years so they would not be so noticeable to the general public.  In previous years the equipment was painted overall white, and any movement was known as a "White Train".
The third shot is a closeup of the cupola on the guard car.

Bruce in KC

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Saw cars set out in Kennewick WA at night on the UP siding. Would have a caboose with windows blacked out but movement could be seen inside.  Never saw any of the care shown but those would have been for plutonium shippments I would think. Doubt due to sheilding any trace of radiaton wouldnt have been detected so sorry bout the film dea. What was inside as to the actual nuk material am betting weight wise a person could carry it easily and would fit into a lunch box with room to spair.  What I might have been seeing was low level stuff being shipped it was well marked on the car too.

Here is a going away shot of a real nuke train that went thru recently
Joe

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"No, Marge, it's pronounced 'nook-you-lur.'"



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/18/19 08:29 by mile250.

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Trainatic Wrote:
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> Here is a going away shot of a real nuke train
> that went thru recently
> Joe
Going through where to where?
BP
 

The "real nuke train" cars are for used fuel rods. New ones can be shipped in boxcars.
RB

That looks about what most cabooses I saw were like in Kennewick WA on the UP tracks.  Fuel rods in box cars?  Know they shipped them out of Hanford area north of Richland WA Sandvic Metals plant. Were they shipped in a similar fashon to the train shown except box cars?

Those Chrome Dome cars are like the ones that ran thru on the KP. There was also 2 other typrs of cars that came thru. upkpfan