URO

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Oh, yes!  The reactor car.  A photo of this car has been published some
years ago- 1970's I think.  It is to carry the reactor vessel to the
construction site.  It carried the reactors from GE at Lynn, MA and
Westinghouse at Pittsburgh that built the reactors for ships, submarines
and some commercial power reactors.

 

Good chance that it is documented in JANE's Information Group
Transportation books ( yes, like Jane's All the Worlds Aircraft)  that
documents shipping devices, containers, heavy equipment riggers, haulers
and shippers and all of that sort of stuff.

 

Jane's publishes a large series of these sort of books for the
profession market.  Not cheap at all, but very interesting as they
publish the information from inside an industry that is generally not
available to the general public.

 

Gary Rolih , Cincinnati 

 

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Cal Reynolds,

 

     Also anyone else that would like to see the photo of the URO
(unidentified railroad object) send me a separate email with your email
address.  This mailing list will not attach photos.  By the way I have
identified it.  Charles Sledge who used to work for the Department of
Defense says that is is a specially designed car for transporting part
of a nuclear reactor that is used on submarines or aricraft carriers.
If the container had anything in it there would have been other DOD cars
with it including a caboose with guards.  Also when carrying something
"HOT" they normally are in a train by themselves due to the security
requirements.  I retired last year after 41 years and I never saw
anything like this car on the railroad.  I submitted it to the
Railpictures.Net and they rejected it I think for security reasons but I
will sent a photo on request with a return address.

 

Skip Salmon

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3721 Buckingham Drive 
Roanoke, VA 24018-2448

	 

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	Skip your URO pic didn't come through. Would you try again
please. Cal Reynolds

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		Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 9:29 PM

		Subject: URO

		 

		Gentlemen,
		 
		    I got this attached photo at SX today and must say
that I have never seen quite a car.  It is a DODX 38881 four truck 8axle
special custom car to carry what my wife calls an "URO" ..unidentified
railroad object.  Anybody out there know what this might be? 
		 
		     Also got a couple of good shots of oldrusting power
beside the Punkin Vine at the Virginia Scrap Iron south of "JK" that you
can see at:
		 
		http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=97455   2
Chesapeake and Western Baldwin switchers
		 
		http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=97461   N&W
2-8-0 #1118 "Lost Locomotive" marked in grafitti "Soul Train"
		 
		Skip Salmon
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		Skip and Judi Salmon 
		3721 Buckingham Drive 
		Roanoke, VA 24018-2448

		
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