CCTGM Wrote:
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> These cars also had some sort of satellite
> tracking and an emergency phone number to call if
> an alarm went off. I gues it been long enough
> since 1985 when I was a manager at the UP we had
> one have the alarms go off and we called the
> number , they had us switch the car out and
> isolate the car outside the yard on a siding away
> deform town and by the time we got that all done a
> couple of helicopters showed up with a team from
> Hill AFB. The staring checking the load and the
> alarms and found a bad sensor they changed it out
> and we put the car on the next train. These cars
> have a large pallet which the missile is on in a
> large set of brackets.
> The pallet has an air left system and the use a
> compressor to air it up and then float the unit
> out of the car onto a transport truck. Cars are
> equipped with impact detectors

Very interesting, thanks.