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Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)

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Posted: 10 Jul 2010

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Photo replaced on 08 May 2014
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Amarillo, TX Railroad Museum (2485)

Amarillo, TX Railroad Museum (2485)
On the north side of a former Air Force base in Amarillo was what looked like a warehouse and a number of older, seemingly abandoned, bizarre looking rail cars and this one engine. I later discovered this was the Amarillo Railroad Museum.

The engine viewed here and in adjacent photos is (per the museum's website) an Alco S-2 that was used for moving nuclear weapons trains at Pantex. Pantex was & is a nuclear weapons facility north of Amarillo. See the museums website for more information:
amarillorailmuseum.com/switcher.html

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 slgwv
slgwv club
Back in the late 40s my late FIL for a time was one of the "couriers"--i.e., the guys toting tommyguns who rode along with the "devices." Toward the end of his life he could talk about it--it had been seriously classified before.
8 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv club
Seeing those brought back uncomfortable, dark, memories of the nuclear scare period of my childhood.
8 years ago.

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