Posted on 03/24/2013 10:04:05 PM PDT by Nachum
That's a lot of stuff.
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Vince thanks. That answers my question about why it was assumed that they were DHS and not military.
Did you get to see any of this when it arrived in Southern California?
That Assad is taking a dirt nap now might make us invade. They’re probably worried about all of the WMDs, including all the ones from Saddam.
Gosh this is silly.
They should make like the Swiss, and sell all surplus equipment to the public. Some Cantons even sell howitsers and other war arms.
The video was taken here -
Making the direction from East to West and the rail track follows Route 66.
California, and Barstow, would be directly on this line.
“Counted about 155 vehicles “
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I remember 100+ car trainloads of this stuff before and after GW-1.
The Norfolk-Southern tracks ran beside my property.
I would not get too paranoid about trainloads of military vehicles, without knowing to and where from.
From Fort Irwin perhaps?
The govt sells a lot of used vehicles, including military ones.
I’m pretty sure Oshkosh won the contract. The JLTV may not be fielded yet, but there are a bunch of them, of two different varieties, on that train. I recognize the big “cage” structure on the back end, and the shape of the windows on the side doors. The rear passenger doors of the Oshkosh truck have a really distinctive very tiny window. There are two different “noses” on the vehicles on that train, so they may be testing a couple of different versions of the Oshkosh truck.
Oshkosh’s own webpage shows at least three different noses for the JLTV, a high-nose, a medium-nose with really high fender arches, and a low-nose with the headlights almost at axle level, as well as an air-droppable version that looks completely different from everything.
I only know this because I really like the look of the “high-nose” version of Oshkosh’s truck, and would love one day to get my hands on one, even if it didn’t have the armored body. It reminds me of the old ‘70s GM truck line.
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BNSF parallels I-40 in the northern half of the state of AZ. All that military surplus could have been put ashore at any harbor(milop) on the west coast.......train is going west to east in the video.
Thanks for your Post, glad to know my guess was right, and was just going to berate my fellow Vets on this post for not noticing things like shadows and taking into account the time of year it is, (early spring, Sun is still to the south, shadows slightly to the left, which would make it about mid day, train traveling WEST) Come on you old Army Troops and Devil Dogs, an old broke down Navy Corpsman just made you look old! (teasing gang) Thanks for the equipment ID’s.
From the paint jobs (olive drab with dessert tan) on some, I'd say these are refurbished units, just what the DHS admits to buying over 2,000 of.
These remote radio devices are called "End of Train" devices, or EOTs. These are coupled into the train's air brake line.
The EOT radios information to the engineer regarding the brake pressure at the rear of the train, whether or not the last car is moving, and whether or not the flashing red light is working (activated at night by a sensor). The EOT also allows the engineer to set the air brakes from the rear of the train in the event the train breaks in two, thus, in an emergency, setting brakes on both halves of the train.
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My son was driving an MRAP in Afghanistan that was literally blown in two, despite the weight. The front and back halves landed 30 feet apart. They showed us the satellite pics.
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