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Re: [CBQ] Re: Plane trains to Boeing

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Plane trains to Boeing
From: "Bill Scott wscott@optonline.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:52:07 -0400
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Republic Aviation was located in Farmingdale, and was active until 1965.  Grumman Aircraft Engineering, later Grumman Aerospace Corp., was located in Bethpage, just west of Farmingdale, and was active until 1994.  It was a Grumman LEM that landed on the moon in 1969.  Maybe the car was on Long Island for that purpose?

Bill Scott

On Oct 12, 2015, at 1:04 AM, Dave Leasure denverdave@fastermac.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> I was
> looking through one of my brother's freight car books and saw a photo of GN
> 60716 (only car in the series), a Thrall enclosed flatcar for transporting 747
> parts. The car was built in August 1968, so it fits my era. What caught my
> attention is that the car was shot in Farmingdale (Long Island), NY heading to
> Seattle, WA (the Boeing 747 plant is in Everett, WA). Photo was taken in
> September, 1969 - again, my pre-BN era.

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Tom-

Which railroad book were you looking at when you encountered this picture?

I am curious now as to why this car was in Long Island, NY in the first place. It seems that would be an awfully long way to be routed from Wichita to Seattle. Also, how would it get to Long Island? This car would be way too big to go through a railway tunnel under the Hudson River, and I doubt it would have gone on a car ferry.

A more likely scenario is that the photo was mis-captioned.

David Leasure
Castle Rock, CO




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