I can remember a friend calling from a company in St Louis, just after the
Gulf War....he looked down from his building onto the railroad yard below
and saw a train loaded with captured eastern block equipment.
I went down to take a look, later that day...and was suprised to see
undamaged armor of all types, multiple examples in pristine condition.
Even more suprising was that the train was unguarded...hatches were
unsecured and eastern block HMGs were still mounted to the turrets of many
vehicles. There were several types of multiple AA gun mounts with guns
still in place!!!!!
What a find. Spent most of the day there with several other
lookers,,,,,,,no railroad dicks, nothing to spoil our day......and
alas...the train was gone the next morning...having moved on during the nite!
Will remember that one for a long time.
Jon
At 12:58 AM 7/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>>I also see a number of trains go thru my
>>town full of Military vehicles. Last week here in Raton, NM we had a train
>>derail that had a bunch of HUMVEES on it, one car flipped and crushed 3 of
>>them.
>
>Well, up my way we only seem to derail chemical and lumber cars :-) Las
>summer I saw a whole trainload of Bradleys move up into Canada. I assume
>it was for some joint maneuver. Boy, was that ever a joy to see.
>Usually the trains are boring :-)
>
>Steve
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