Although this list isn't for the AF folks to talk about AF things, I remember that AF and Lionel produced a fantasy train of missile launchers, exploding boxcars and as I recall L made a nuclear waste transport car. Of course with the problems in Japan occurring right now, nuclear has come up in the news. Now we can relate to the TV comic with Homer Simpson and his job. And now we find that those long ago trains actually existed in some form:
I received this from another group that I belong to. Historic Hanford nuclear rail cars to be displayed http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014680875_apwanuclearreservationrailcars1stldwritethru.html?syndication=rss Two locomotives and two cask railcars that once hauled irradiated fuel across Hanford will be making a final trip in the next few months. While 12 other railcars parked in central Hanford are destined for a landfill, the locomotives and two cars will be going to historic B Reactor for display. "It's a big win for the preservation effort at the site and a really big win for the public," said Colleen French, DOE Hanford government affairs program manager. Railroad tracks already have been removed at B Reactor, but they will be put down again for the display. B Reactor was the nation's first full-scale production reactor, ushering in the Atomic Age. It was built in 13 months during World War II as the nation raced to develop the technology for an atom bomb. Bob Werre ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
