The load is a 1.5 million-pound, 16.5-foot-diameter decommissioned reactor pressure vessel from Southern California Edison’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station -
In the 1930's a similar rig was used to move the Pyrex glass mirror blank for the 200 inch Mt. Palomar telescope from the Corning Glass works (New York State, I believe) across to southern California, where the mirror was ground and polished before finally being moved up the mountain by truck convoy. They stood the disc on its edge, and if my memory is correct they built a case around it with bulletproof armour plate in addition to the suspension mechanism. They took very indirect route because the high load would not fit most bridge clearances of the time. It was quite a job, and I imagine it must have looked as impressive as this. I'm sure there's some old cinema B&W film in some press archive showing its departure or arrival, but I've never seen it, just still photos. It was quite a load, even by today's standards. A guy named Ronald Florence wrote quite a good book about the whole project, "The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope" in 1995. Corning developed a special mixture of Pyrex glass that had a very low rate of thermal expansion/contraction, and the blank was poured into a mold with a complex reinforcing structure on the bottom (rear) side. They poured the glass using ladles suspended from an overhead track, which took about 14-15 hours. There is film of parts of that job - it's amazing to watch.
Dept of Defense has double articulated nuclear fuel rod rail cars built along the Illinois river at Marseilles about 1991 / 1992 for Navy. 300 witnessed the strength test imposed by placing massive pressure atop. Springs were temporarily replaced with pipe nipples. Not even any deflection with dial indicators at various underside locations. Good design, good weding and workmanship. Years later came thru Elyria, Ohio where local meat head wanted to protest on the track at the publicly announced time of 5 AM and 25 MPH. Navy arrived at 2 AM, 80 MPH. At that time these were largest rail cars.
Not true. Structural materials interspersed in broken up fuel would prevent compaction of the remaining uranium into a configuration that would go critical without some moderator present. In addition, spent fuel has many good neutron absorbers that would also act to prevent criticality.
@@JeffRyman69 Criticality would not be possible even with moderator (water) present. These containers don't contain a whole core and could not go critical under any circumstances.
I super enjoyed watching this VIDEO! I not only have these SCHNABEL trains in BACHMANN HO but I also have these TTX flats etc as well, the cabooses I have to buy them I don't have BURLINGTON NORTHERN green.The red & cream white caboose that could be anybodies railroad. 🤔 Thanks for presenting this! 👏♥️
I’d never have known it was a ‘nuclear’ train if it wasn’t for the relatively tiny yellow radiation warning sign on the side of the containment vessel.
They try to keep nuclear transports unmarked because of the extreme threat they pose on the general public , normally any nuclear transports by railroad happen at night with highly thought-out routes and large amounts of security detail on the train to keep criminals away.
@@9bmichaelcn958 it's actually due to the weight of the Schnabel car , they are incredibly heavy railcars the speed is restricted because of the weight of the consist. The cars in front and back of the transport are the brake assistance , steel mills do the same thing for hot cars because they don't have their own brakes so mills always put brake cars in the consist to help in stopping the railcars.
Stopped a BNSF train in Creston, Iowa that was pulling three casks of spent fuel from the Cooper station near Brownville, Nebraska bound for the storage pool at Morris, Illinois. The tracks north of Brownville were so bad they were pulled up and right of way converted to a bike trail after the shipment cycle was complete. The remaining fuel will be stored permanently on site in dry casks.
like everything else invented by the Germany.... first Computer, first Rocket, first Stealth Plane, first Motor Car, first Diesel Engine, first Electrical Train ... etc. etc. etc....
Hey, Eliot Francis. Those SD70Ace's have got the best sounding horns since the Rock Island went down the drain. The MoP kept them on their 2nd hand GP38-2's for a time, but that ended quickly. I enjoy hearing those. You hear one, you know whats comin.
Stop guessing, everyone. Here is a link to a web page showing exactly what is being transported here. www.songscommunity.com/about-decommissioning/decommissioning-san-onofre-nuclear-generating-station/safely-dismantling-songs/relocating-the-unit-1-reactor-pressure-vessel
@@antonbruce1241 You are wrong there. There is a guy here in Illinois that designed a Schnabel car for N gage. He comes into our Hobby shop once and a while. I dont remember his name, but do a search for N gage Schnabel car and you might find it. it is a kit so it has to be put together and looks very good.
@@antonbruce1241 Your welcome. He custom designs some N gage cars, involved with N-trak gage module layout groups before COVID started, and has his own N gage layout, but I have never seen the layout. take care.
How heavy is that containment vessel since it require such a large railcar to carry it? Also what are those small houses on each end of the railcar? (not the cabeeses)
Clive, Utah was the final destination. The vessel was cross loaded to make the rest of the trip by road. It took 40 days to make the trip from SONGS to Clive.
you dont see a flatcar like the long first one anymore. they ran them as unit consists when they started intermodal. they easily hold two 53 foot vans. my HO set is AWOL one car - this one. How do i lose a car that big? it was like two feet long!
It was a CB&Q pre-merger safety practice to run a couple of low profile cars, such as gondola or flat cars, right behind the locomotive and right in front of the caboose (way car in CB&Q talk) to improve visibility for the crew.
You wouldn't want to be unlucky enough to crash into the containment unit in this train. Not only is it built to withstand heavy impacts, it's also built to prevent rupturing of the container, this cargo is so dangerous if you die with any radioactive leakage on your corpse they have to bury you in a lead-lined box.
They're fuel rods that are encased in a type of glass after cooling for years. That bundle is then inserted into a sheath of concrete which itself is clad in a thick steel shell. There's nothing to leak because inside that cask is basically a giant solid mass that absolutely every last bit of moisture has been removed from.
There is no fuel in this shipment. The container is Type IP-2 and is not designed for accident loads. You could rupture this container completely and roll the contents over a cliff and it wouldn't spread radioactivity anywhere.
I hope you all know here in America, that there is a ban transporting any nuclear martials. Also Nevada has yet to accept anything from anywhere. In addition, security would be highly visible as a deterrent. Energy Solutions as written on the side is based outside of Salt Lake City. Probably transporting metals used in construction of reactors or vessels to the cleaning and melting facility.
I loaded these casks with a crane in1997. Had to be laid down from vertical. Fun What's really impressive is the crash tests done on these vessel s on you tube. Indestructible...
The crash tests are indeed impressive, But this is an IP-2 container that does not contain fissile material. No accident loads are required for this container. You could blow it up, roll it off a cliff and bust it wide open and it wouldn't spread radioactivity anywhere.
@@MitzvosGolem1 I doubt that. Maybe, if you climbed inside the vessel right after shutdown. This particular package has five inches of steel shielding and a surface reading of 0.1 millirem/hr. That amount of shielding cuts gamma levels by about 1000x, which means levels on the outside of the vessel itself would be in the 100 mR/hr range, or 50,000 times less than you suggest.
@@Deploracle Your point? Anything “nuclear” usually is accompanied by an armed security detail, and in this day and age with the craziness in the world, my question isn’t all that nuts. 🤦😳 FYI: before anyone else says it, I understand it’s not gold or nuclear waste!
ok a nuclear train I would assume this definitively classifies as a hazmat train yet using flat cars as buffers? also what's up with the weird grade crossing signal 3 long short then long and he was already in the grade when sounding.
You'll see buffer cars like this in any consist containing a load this heavy. The cars are there to provide some distance and steel between the large mass and the rest of the train in case of derailment. The radioactivity in the reactor vessel isn't hazardous in this form. But 770 tons moving at any speed is.
Automation. One task was to monitor the string of cars for hot boxes, resulting from the oil soaked "mop" that lubricated the axle-brass to reduce friction. When the oil got too low, it heated and burned. Now roller bearings greatly reduced that. Also there are now trackside heat detectors that record every wheel set of every train. Another task was to monitor the air pressure at the last car on the train. That is now done by a remote sensor which tells the engineer what the pressre is.
No, what it is, is a steam turbine that is contaminated. It was loaded onto the tube, then concrete poured around it, filling the tube. The only radio active part of the load is on the Schnabel car. The containers on the flat car are not radioactive.
Seems like it would not be worth a heist. You would need some serious equipment to steal or even damage that thing. Probably easier ways to get stuff for a dirty bomb.
@@BurlingtonNorthernProductions Could it have also have been for weight distribution? I saw a train with rocket boosters a while back and it had spacer cars between each one to distribute the weight better.
The former CB&Q safety practice was to run low profile flats or gondolas at the front and rear of a consist to improve vision from locomotive and way car (caboose).
I used to work as a locomotive fueler for BN out in the midwest and we had a similar nuclear transport rig come through from time to time. The yardmaster always made them pass through town and do crew change-outs way out in the prairie! 😋
Spent fuel waste. New fuel isn’t much different from a lump of lead. We used to laugh and suggest offering all the spend fuel that they could carry away.
It is NOT the reactor, it is the reactor vessel that the reactor core was once inside but is not longer inside. It's a stainless steel lined steel cylinder closed at one end. When the reactor was operating neutrons from the nuclear reaction in the fuel activated some of the iron and impurity atoms in the steel. Let the anti nukes and nuke terrorists waste their time trying to accumulate enough radioactive material from it to assemble something that would provide a lethal dose if left in contact with your body for a year. It's low-level waste. No fissionable material is present.
I don't know where they're taking the nuclear waste but if you ask me it should be going to Washington DC to be stored at congress's fenced-in compound at the Capitol
Security and engineering personnel need to have clear lines of site on a payload of nuclear waste from all angles and at all times. The consequences of a containment beach of a spent reactor fuel vessel could very easily make most of the world's reactor meltdowns look like small bonn fires.
@@MrRandalfscott Sorry, wrong in all respects. There is no security, and no serious radiological consequences or hazard even if the container were to bust wide open. The most dangerous thing about this shipment is its 770 ton mass. No spent fuel in this shipment.
Why? You can't steal something that heavy. You can't damage it or blow it up. It's just a large empty mildly radioactive steel cylinder. Derailing the car would be expensive, but not hazardous.
@@mikewinstanley4360 This railcar was built by the Schnabel company, which was built to move loads like this one. I understand when you google nuclear waste cars it shows up as something different. But this was carrying a nuclear reactor from the Area around San Diego. If this info still doesn't convince you, we learned about this train from BNSF employees.
@@BurlingtonNorthernProductions no a schnabel car won't ever haul nuclear waste they aren't designed for it they haul over sized and heavy loads not nuclear waste if it was you would see it passing by every week with one it's not a reactor either reactors are built on site and never transported ever
@@mikewinstanley4360 Just look at the vessel. It's got a big "Radioactive" placard on it with 3321 next to it. cameochemicals.noaa.gov/unna/3321. Sounds like it's from the decommissioning of San Onofre.
They are watching... Satellite and aircraft follow this fuel. Extremely high radiation risk gamma etc. I loaded several for DOE with 200 ton crane which went on a barge to France to get reprocessed..
@@andrewachterhof2062, nope. No need for security. Low level radioactive waste. Who is going to steal a 722 ton container? Standing next to the container, you will get more radiation from the sun than the container.
Washington state has a park a Hansford Nuclear plant thy got the 1940s train that transported hot wast for disposal, Tours are just starting to the most famous nuke plant in the world ,You can stand right next to the old reacter thaT made fatboy
@@BurlingtonNorthernProductions Yes Hanford also has many reactor compartments from US Navy Nuc Submarines. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton WA decommission the subs, removes the reactor compartment and all fuel is removed and barge it to Hanford. The rest of the boat is cut up and sold for recycling.
Never mind the World's largest blablabla ... That train's got TWO CABOOSES!
That's where all the D.O.E. security is.
Cabeese - plural.
@@ericplaysbass Like meese?
@@egparis18 Eggzackly! 😁
I knew cabooses were still in use
18 trucks, 72 wheels....that's an impressive railcar!!!
They ain't kidding when they say top speed of 10 mph.
enough torque to change the earths rotation though
Still faster than trying to move something like this by truck. Though impressive those 150 wheeler supermoves are slow.
The load is a 1.5 million-pound, 16.5-foot-diameter decommissioned
reactor pressure vessel from Southern California Edison’s San Onofre
Nuclear Generating Station -
I wondered what all this was for.
1 1/2 million ton piece of machinery.
In the 1930's a similar rig was used to move the Pyrex glass mirror blank for the 200 inch Mt. Palomar telescope from the Corning Glass works (New York State, I believe) across to southern California, where the mirror was ground and polished before finally being moved up the mountain by truck convoy. They stood the disc on its edge, and if my memory is correct they built a case around it with bulletproof armour plate in addition to the suspension mechanism. They took very indirect route because the high load would not fit most bridge clearances of the time. It was quite a job, and I imagine it must have looked as impressive as this. I'm sure there's some old cinema B&W film in some press archive showing its departure or arrival, but I've never seen it, just still photos. It was quite a load, even by today's standards. A guy named Ronald Florence wrote quite a good book about the whole project, "The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope" in 1995. Corning developed a special mixture of Pyrex glass that had a very low rate of thermal expansion/contraction, and the blank was poured into a mold with a complex reinforcing structure on the bottom (rear) side. They poured the glass using ladles suspended from an overhead track, which took about 14-15 hours. There is film of parts of that job - it's amazing to watch.
Would have been even more awesome to see that beast go around a bend in track, but, this was pretty cool none the less :)
Dept of Defense has double articulated nuclear fuel rod rail cars built along the Illinois river at Marseilles about 1991 / 1992 for Navy. 300 witnessed the strength test imposed by placing massive pressure atop. Springs were temporarily replaced with pipe nipples. Not even any deflection with dial indicators at various underside locations. Good design, good weding and workmanship. Years later came thru Elyria, Ohio where local meat head wanted to protest on the track at the publicly announced time of 5 AM and 25 MPH. Navy arrived at 2 AM, 80 MPH. At that time these were largest rail cars.
All hot fuel shipping casks are never crash tested when filled with spent fuel as the brittle fuel will break up to form a critical mass and explode.
@@jimjohnson7421 That was not a crash test. Approx 85 ton load pushing down across the top.
Not true. Structural materials interspersed in broken up fuel would prevent compaction of the remaining uranium into a configuration that would go critical without some moderator present. In addition, spent fuel has many good neutron absorbers that would also act to prevent criticality.
@@jimjohnson7421 What you describe is not physically possible.
@@JeffRyman69 Criticality would not be possible even with moderator (water) present. These containers don't contain a whole core and could not go critical under any circumstances.
I never knew something like this existed thank you very much for sharing
Amazing railcar.
Those power units are gorgeous too, that SD70 is incredible.
I super enjoyed watching this VIDEO! I not only have these SCHNABEL trains in BACHMANN HO but I also have these TTX flats etc as well, the cabooses I have to buy them I don't have BURLINGTON NORTHERN green.The red & cream white caboose that could be anybodies railroad. 🤔 Thanks for presenting this! 👏♥️
Holy cow. That is one impressive rail car ! Barry
I’d never have known it was a ‘nuclear’ train if it wasn’t for the relatively tiny yellow radiation warning sign on the side of the containment vessel.
They try to keep nuclear transports unmarked because of the extreme threat they pose on the general public , normally any nuclear transports by railroad happen at night with highly thought-out routes and large amounts of security detail on the train to keep criminals away.
@@josephbennett3482 Not to mention the nuclear crazys who want to protest everything
and why they move so slow??is because they carring a nuclear on it or speed limit??
@@9bmichaelcn958 it's actually due to the weight of the Schnabel car , they are incredibly heavy railcars the speed is restricted because of the weight of the consist. The cars in front and back of the transport are the brake assistance , steel mills do the same thing for hot cars because they don't have their own brakes so mills always put brake cars in the consist to help in stopping the railcars.
@@josephbennett3482 ahhh now i get it
Stopped a BNSF train in Creston, Iowa that was pulling three casks of spent fuel from the Cooper station near Brownville, Nebraska bound for the storage pool at Morris, Illinois. The tracks north of Brownville were so bad they were pulled up and right of way converted to a bike trail after the shipment cycle was complete. The remaining fuel will be stored permanently on site in dry casks.
The largest Railcar - made by Kruppstahl in Germany ;) That’s a good example of German engineering :)
YEp that is darn true
Wrong! This train was made by Jesus himself in Merica!
@@branjosnow6244 Hope that's sarcasm.
like everything else invented by the Germany.... first Computer, first Rocket, first Stealth Plane, first Motor Car, first Diesel Engine, first Electrical Train ... etc. etc. etc....
@@FRITZI999 ooh ooh also 2 world wars, don't for get that.
Hey, Eliot Francis. Those SD70Ace's have got the best sounding horns since the Rock Island went down the drain. The MoP kept them on their 2nd hand GP38-2's for a time, but that ended quickly. I enjoy hearing those. You hear one, you know whats comin.
I love the sound of the horn.
I love to hate those horns, when your out chasing they are eardrum blasters.
not much air to run brakes on a twain that short makes for a nice punchy
pressure.
@@robbrock5583 Earplugs...
Nice video man! Hello from Brazil!
Ola!
awesome video ! now I need to see the massive crane that picks this thing up
I love the trains. thanx.
Cool captures of the Schnabel you got here. Great work and thanks for posting! Just subbed as well and thanks for reaching out to me too!
Awesome, thank you!
Stop guessing, everyone. Here is a link to a web page showing exactly what is being transported here. www.songscommunity.com/about-decommissioning/decommissioning-san-onofre-nuclear-generating-station/safely-dismantling-songs/relocating-the-unit-1-reactor-pressure-vessel
Thank you!!
Cool sounding horn!!!
I've seen these before they're pretty cool. Surprised not much video on them. But I really want one of these in N scale please.
If you can't find one...how about kitbashing one??
@@antonbruce1241 You are wrong there. There is a guy here in Illinois that designed a Schnabel car for N gage. He comes into our Hobby shop once and a while. I dont remember his name, but do a search for N gage Schnabel car and you might find it. it is a kit so it has to be put together and looks very good.
@@dathyr1 Thanks for that info. I never knew.
@@antonbruce1241 Your welcome. He custom designs some N gage cars, involved with N-trak gage module layout groups before COVID started, and has his own N gage layout, but I have never seen the layout. take care.
@@dathyr1 I have one made for ABB . looks great, a little stiff on curves.
Looks like they are going though Riverside there to me. This from from San Onofre (SONGS) maybe?
Ya I think the boys on the train are armed!RC
They are they would be heavily armed when they came to GE by my house
No security needed for this shipment as it contains no fissile material.
How heavy is that containment vessel since it require such a large railcar to carry it?
Also what are those small houses on each end of the railcar? (not the cabeeses)
Bet this train is headed for nevada to the nuclear waste disposal site somewhere outside las vegas,nevada.
Actually you are correct! The railcar's final destination was Las Vegas, where it was disassembled.
Clive, Utah was the final destination. The vessel was cross loaded to make the rest of the trip by road. It took 40 days to make the trip from SONGS to Clive.
Should’ve had 4014 pull it so we could see the world’s largest locomotive haul the world’s largest train car.
Nah. That would have been Union Pacific infringing in BNSF glory.
It’s called a “Schnabel car”. They carry hugely heavy loads.
you dont see a flatcar like the long first one anymore. they ran them as unit consists when they started intermodal. they easily hold two 53 foot vans. my HO set is AWOL one car - this one. How do i lose a car that big? it was like two feet long!
It was a CB&Q pre-merger safety practice to run a couple of low profile cars, such as gondola or flat cars, right behind the locomotive and right in front of the caboose (way car in CB&Q talk) to improve visibility for the crew.
Wondering if this consist is always speed limited?
You wouldn't want to be unlucky enough to crash into the containment unit in this train. Not only is it built to withstand heavy impacts, it's also built to prevent rupturing of the container, this cargo is so dangerous if you die with any radioactive leakage on your corpse they have to bury you in a lead-lined box.
Not nearly as dangerous as people make it out to be, and that ridiculously overbuilt train car is a testament to that.
@@Deploracle Hey it's government work.
They're fuel rods that are encased in a type of glass after cooling for years. That bundle is then inserted into a sheath of concrete which itself is clad in a thick steel shell. There's nothing to leak because inside that cask is basically a giant solid mass that absolutely every last bit of moisture has been removed from.
There is no fuel in this shipment. The container is Type IP-2 and is not designed for accident loads. You could rupture this container completely and roll the contents over a cliff and it wouldn't spread radioactivity anywhere.
@@phuturephunk No fuel in this shipment.
Any idea how far they were going? At that speed any distance was going to take a long time getting there. Lol
I'd love to see that in HO scale.
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Du hast wohl auch de Krupp Schriftzug gelesen.
like to see one going through folkston,ga.
I hope you all know here in America, that there is a ban transporting any nuclear martials.
Also Nevada has yet to accept anything from anywhere.
In addition, security would be highly visible as a deterrent.
Energy Solutions as written on the side is based outside of Salt Lake City.
Probably transporting metals used in construction of reactors or vessels to the cleaning and melting facility.
You can absolutely see where Krupp's designers went "We might already have a design for that from WW2 . . . "
Flatbed full of railcar parts = no breaking down in the middle of nowhere is allowed.
Wow, that horn could raise the dead!
YOu know it's serious when they have a staffed caboose.
I loaded these casks with a crane in1997. Had to be laid down from vertical.
Fun
What's really impressive is the crash tests done on these vessel s on you tube.
Indestructible...
do you have the link?
@@producerk8247 BNL HFBR 1997.
The crash tests are indeed impressive, But this is an IP-2 container that does not contain fissile material. No accident loads are required for this container. You could blow it up, roll it off a cliff and bust it wide open and it wouldn't spread radioactivity anywhere.
@@boyscoutmatt true not fissile but highly radioactive. 5000 Rad plus.
@@MitzvosGolem1 I doubt that. Maybe, if you climbed inside the vessel right after shutdown. This particular package has five inches of steel shielding and a surface reading of 0.1 millirem/hr. That amount of shielding cuts gamma levels by about 1000x, which means levels on the outside of the vessel itself would be in the 100 mR/hr range, or 50,000 times less than you suggest.
I want to see how it handles a sharp curve.
It goes 1 MPH😂
Simple...
It doesn’t
its the "No Humping" sign for me... haha
Thanks for sharing! Pretty spectacular catch! Not to sound stupid, but would they have had armed security with the train crew?
Thanks!! Its weird but no they didn't have a security crew lol
@@BurlingtonNorthernProductions That you could see
It's not gold.
@@Deploracle Your point? Anything “nuclear” usually is accompanied by an armed security detail, and in this day and age with the craziness in the world, my question isn’t all that nuts. 🤦😳
FYI: before anyone else says it, I understand it’s not gold or nuclear waste!
@@benterbieten9540 I had a few friends walk right up to it and take pictures, it was odd but there wasn't any security.
That was old steam turbine. It went x amount of miles on rail then it was truck the rest into salt lake city ut
I wonder why they felt the need to place flags on it
Where is this I would love to walk on that trail and just randomly see a train go by
Riverside California
Guau! qué transportan, un transformador o una pila nuclear?
In Japan they would freight that to the shore and drop it in the ocean LOL.
Why so SLOW and is that highrailer escorting the train and if it is, why isn't it on the same line as the train?
Lets just say there is a lot of curves in SoCal lol
Stretch breaking is where it's at... I do it.
whats that? hitting the trailer brakes or braking long and linear?
ok a nuclear train I would assume this definitively classifies as a hazmat train yet using flat cars as buffers? also what's up with the weird grade crossing signal 3 long short then long and he was already in the grade when sounding.
You'll see buffer cars like this in any consist containing a load this heavy. The cars are there to provide some distance and steel between the large mass and the rest of the train in case of derailment. The radioactivity in the reactor vessel isn't hazardous in this form. But 770 tons moving at any speed is.
Neat to see the caboose
Railroads need to bring back the caboose it's part of american history something that should've never went away
Automation. One task was to monitor the string of cars for hot boxes, resulting from the oil soaked "mop" that lubricated the axle-brass to reduce friction. When the oil got too low, it heated and burned. Now roller bearings greatly reduced that. Also there are now trackside heat detectors that record every wheel set of every train. Another task was to monitor the air pressure at the last car on the train. That is now done by a remote sensor which tells the engineer what the pressre is.
It could use a paint job, it's quite oxidized
what state was train going through?
California
I thought it's a video game by looking at the thumbnail.
There has to be some kind of security on board, out of site?
Not that I know of
No, what it is, is a steam turbine that is contaminated. It was loaded onto the tube, then concrete poured around it, filling the tube. The only radio active part of the load is on the Schnabel car. The containers on the flat car are not radioactive.
@keith moore , yes, spent fuel is transported on smaller casks on trucks. I work for the company that is doing the demolition of SONGS.
Seems like it would not be worth a heist. You would need some serious equipment to steal or even damage that thing. Probably easier ways to get stuff for a dirty bomb.
@keith moore No security required for a shipment with no fissile material.
The cabooses I understand, but why the two empty flat cars?
So if the train derails the cabooses won't smash into the nuclear housing.
@@BurlingtonNorthernProductions Could it have also have been for weight distribution? I saw a train with rocket boosters a while back and it had spacer cars between each one to distribute the weight better.
The former CB&Q safety practice was to run low profile flats or gondolas at the front and rear of a consist to improve vision from locomotive and way car (caboose).
No shit, there's actually a nuclear reactor on that railcar... for powerplant I assume.
An empty reactor vessel. No fuel.
look at the size of the power units.....can some 1 tell me what they are ???
Why does USA use Diesel traction. They have so much hydroelectric power and and also nuclear power?
I used to work as a locomotive fueler for BN out in the midwest and we had a similar nuclear transport rig come through from time to time. The yardmaster always made them pass through town and do crew change-outs way out in the prairie! 😋
so what does that vessel weigh??
Must be one of the few times of the year the sky is blue and not full of smog.
Haven't you heard, smog has been outlawed! Anyone who see's or mentions smog is subject to a fine!
@@tomt6040 in AZ it’s called desert haze. It smells the same looks the same and tastes the same. Maybe after being outlawed in CA it moved?
Be great if someone came out with a ho and n scale model of that car. Very cool!
Märklin made a Z scale version of something similar but not in any other scale that I'm aware of. Plus that was 30 years ago.
@@wantahertzdonut thanks for the reply. Z scale, now that is small, think I saw some z scale many years ago.
Amtrak has one in their livery. In case Rosie O'Donnell chooses to travel by rail.
Imma tell lizzo this is an option
Where are the SWAT teams located ?
No security needed for a shipment containing no fissile material.
@@boyscoutmatt its nuclear
@@varjag Yes, it's nuclear in the sense that it is radioactive. But there is no spent fuel (fissile material) and therefore does not require security.
Does it actually have nuclear waste in it.
Yep
Spent fuel waste. New fuel isn’t much different from a lump of lead. We used to laugh and suggest offering all the spend fuel that they could carry away.
No spent fuel in this shipment. Just a very heavy mildly radioactive empty steel cylinder.
That's the Reactor from one nuclear power plant in California
It is NOT the reactor, it is the reactor vessel that the reactor core was once inside but is not longer inside. It's a stainless steel lined steel cylinder closed at one end. When the reactor was operating neutrons from the nuclear reaction in the fuel activated some of the iron and impurity atoms in the steel. Let the anti nukes and nuke terrorists waste their time trying to accumulate enough radioactive material from it to assemble something that would provide a lethal dose if left in contact with your body for a year. It's low-level waste. No fissionable material is present.
@@marv1405 I was still close to know that nuclear core be in that
not shown: the couple dozen heavely armed marines and helicopters escorting.
Power plant components don't get a military escort.
that thing looked so heavy that the engineer decided to take some spare wheels with him XD
Krupp (Germany)
What were they transporting?
Spent nuclear fuel
@@TexasRailfan2008 Nope. No fuel in this shipment. Just a very large mildly radioactive empty steel cylinder.
@@boyscoutmatt oh
Are the 18 trucks 100 tonners?
Boy, that rail car is squealing like a pig.
Anyone know what's in the containers?
Empty reactor vessel from SONGS decommissioning.
His ditch lights were flashing when he blew the horn
I don't know where they're taking the nuclear waste but if you ask me it should be going to Washington DC to be stored at congress's fenced-in compound at the Capitol
Obvious, looked in comments, stopped after 30. Why does it have 1 caboose (never mind 2!) in hte 21st centrury?
Security and engineering personnel need to have clear lines of site on a payload of nuclear waste from all angles and at all times. The consequences of a containment beach of a spent reactor fuel vessel could very easily make most of the world's reactor meltdowns look like small bonn fires.
@@MrRandalfscott Sorry, wrong in all respects. There is no security, and no serious radiological consequences or hazard even if the container were to bust wide open. The most dangerous thing about this shipment is its 770 ton mass. No spent fuel in this shipment.
Mm gotta love the sound of 72 steel wheels all applying brakes at once
No security?
Why? You can't steal something that heavy. You can't damage it or blow it up. It's just a large empty mildly radioactive steel cylinder. Derailing the car would be expensive, but not hazardous.
Sadly, after this move, Kasgro who owned the car took a torch to it and scrapped it.
Why?
@@rtz549 idk
Well they can’t keep an extremely radioactive car now can they?
That's not a nuke train genius that's a electrical transformer
No its not? It was transferring nuclear waste from a nuclear powerplant near San Diego.
@@BurlingtonNorthernProductions no it's not those aren't nuclear waste cars... Do yourself a favour and google "nuclear waste railroad"
@@mikewinstanley4360 This railcar was built by the Schnabel company, which was built to move loads like this one. I understand when you google nuclear waste cars it shows up as something different. But this was carrying a nuclear reactor from the Area around San Diego. If this info still doesn't convince you, we learned about this train from BNSF employees.
@@BurlingtonNorthernProductions no a schnabel car won't ever haul nuclear waste they aren't designed for it they haul over sized and heavy loads not nuclear waste if it was you would see it passing by every week with one it's not a reactor either reactors are built on site and never transported ever
@@mikewinstanley4360 Just look at the vessel. It's got a big "Radioactive" placard on it with 3321 next to it. cameochemicals.noaa.gov/unna/3321. Sounds like it's from the decommissioning of San Onofre.
Nothing to see here. Just Rosie Odennell on her way to work.
А почему с такой осторожностью везут? Ядерная боеголовка, что ль?
Андрей, почти. Да и тяжёлый агрегат.
Where are the DOE SWAT operators?
They are watching... Satellite and aircraft follow this fuel.
Extremely high radiation risk gamma etc.
I loaded several for DOE with 200 ton crane which went on a barge to France to get reprocessed..
It’s covered by the Space Force and orbital bombardment and there’s Space Marines in the X-37
DOE has nothing to do with is as there are no fissile materials in this shipment. Security isn't needed.
@@boyscoutmatt DOE security was there when I loaded used fuel...
Heavily armed.
@@MitzvosGolem1 Yes. But there is no fuel (fissile material) in this shipment.
nuclear waste or fuel?
nuclear waste
It is spent fuel.
@@Pops1970 spent fuel is shipped in smaller casks by truck.
@@Pops1970 Nope. Just an empty reactor vessel.
@@russcarlson7151 spent fuel is often shipped by rail. But not in this case.
WILL BET A DOLLAR TO DONUTS
THAT THE ROAD FOREMAN OF ENGINES IS ABOARD!!
A dollar says that there are some very heavily armed people in both of those cabooses
@@andrewachterhof2062, nope. No need for security. Low level radioactive waste.
Who is going to steal a 722 ton container? Standing next to the container, you will get more radiation from the sun than the container.
All that BAD GARBAGE just wonder who's back yard its gonna end up end,love the TWO Cabooses
Y is it going slow
There are a lot of curves in SoCal, if they go too fast the train could derail. You wouldn't want to derail this train :)
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This is certainly NOT a "nuclear" train. Just an overweight, oversize cargo.
Nuclear cargo would of had plenty of security.
placard 3321 is low grade nuclear material.
I saw Walter and jessie in the culvert with a hose.
No security needed for a shipment containing no fissile material.
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Washington state has a park a Hansford Nuclear plant thy got the 1940s train that transported hot wast for disposal, Tours are just starting to the most famous nuke plant in the world ,You can stand right next to the old reacter thaT made fatboy
Dang, amazing!!
@@BurlingtonNorthernProductions Yes Hanford also has many reactor compartments from US Navy Nuc Submarines. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton WA decommission the subs, removes the reactor compartment and all fuel is removed and barge it to Hanford. The rest of the boat is cut up and sold for recycling.
"It´s the gubmint, they have something really, really heavy, and really, really delicate to move"
"No probs" ~BNSF
Where's all the protesters that hate nuclear energy LOL
I would be there just but ink in texas... I just don’t like what happens after a reactor melts down
Ford truck leads and checks track
FORD Found on rail decaying
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