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At a distance I was going to guess some sort of jet engine, but that blue caboose reminds me of a US Navy security caboose. The cylinder container load might be spent nuclear fuel.
I forgot to mention, I recall seeing the caboose mentioned on the forum awhile ago but I can't remember what thread, it may have been one of the threads about the Department of Energy's "White Trains" (nuclear rail transport).
Nuclear (Navy I think) fuel with the new super duper security caboose. What a great catch.
Definitely a spent nuclear fuel transport car. Google turns up several images.
Rusty
Has anyone bashed a model of the caboose? John
Very cool. Great spot!
Very neat!
Peter
Great catch. Very interesting. That is a nuclear waste unit. Used to take the waste to one of the disposal sites. "Trains" magazine had an article about them several years ago.
There's something to model, nice grab! 
Good catch, thanks for sharing, and thanks to those who provided identification and insight regarding what it was.
Here are a couple links of interest. I remember early impact tests of this car where they actually ran a loco at speed broadside into the flat car carrying the container. It is round so that it will break away and roll without breaking open.
Hopefully they get the program for SNF storage complete, Hanford's storage tanks are decades beyond life expectancy and have millions of gallons of radioactive waste water and debris that are stored near the Columbia River. That disaster has been brewing for a long time as the government keeps kicking the can down the road.
I agree that the SNF train would be a good one to model, along with the Helium train. I will have to consider making a Hanford section on the new layout, possibly the Hanford Reach as well, many an hour when a youth were spent there steelhead and catfish fishing.
The new Atlas transport cars look to have a more robust retention system than the SNF car in the video above.
More details on the caboose design here at the WarZone website:
Very cool.
I often catch nuke trains when watching the VRF cams around the country. I'm sure the pucker factor is at an 11 when pulling one of these.
I didn't think these were up and running yet.
So when will Brother Love start crankin' those cabooses (cabeese?) out?
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@RSJB18 posted:So when will Brother Love start crankin' those cabooses (cabeese?) out?
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When you give him the interior dimentions.
Why a spacer flat car on either end?
Ok, that's cool. Lionel, take note!
@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Why a spacer flat car on either end?
Separates the hazardous cargo from the locomotive and caboose. Although considering the likely contents, I'm not sure how much good it would do in the case of a mishap.
@Mallard4468 The containment vessel is built to withstand an earthquake or blast. The weight though could crush the locomotive or caboose like a bug.
@EastCoastIron posted:No such word. Cabooses is correct.
ECI
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You don't sarcasm often, do you????
Maybe, its a new machine to trim the trees. Its becoming harder to view the trains as they go by.
I have been on many of these "Navy" trains and curiously enough, the way Bill and paperwork always listed the contents as "Heat Exchangers". 😉😉😉
