Hey all! I ordered and received my 4 pack of HELIUM Transport Tank cars.
My mistake was to open their boxes and unwrap them OUTSIDE the house,on my deck...within seconds UP in the sky they went to parts unknown!
They were last seen by a PanAm pilot at 12,000 feet....headed south...
There should be a warning label on the boxes!
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You had me until you said Pan Am pilot 
Brendan
Funny, the Helium is lighter than air, but not the various metals that comprise the tank car...
Oh, NOW I get it.
LOL
@Dave45681 posted:Funny, the Helium is lighter than air, but not the various metals that comprise the tank car...
You must be a hoot to watch Science Fiction movies with. LOL!
They traveled in time and space! Are you sure they didn't come in a blue box?
Props for a doom and gloom title that we often see only to read the thread and find it was a humorous post.
Kermit's reaction:
They were last seen by a PanAm pilot at 12,000 feet....headed south...
There should be a warning label on the boxes!
Har. I like.
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Once, while working as a computer programmer for the GM&O/ICG RR (really), I asked if we, the ICG, actually paid the shipper for handling helium tank cars, rather than them paying us, as it made the train lighter, so less diesel was burned.
Really, I did. You know you are in trouble when you realize that you are going to have to explain to your boss that this is a joke.
No wonder my promotions were so slow in coming....
(I corrected my oh, so clever joke above as I realized that I had actually stated it backwards yesterday....don't ever get old...)
Should have saved this for April Fools.😉
So that is where this came frorm:
When ever I open a box of those I have my Red Rider at the ready. Don
My son is a pilot and he called me about an hour ago and said while flying today he suddenly saw off his left wing tip what looked like 4 tiny UFOs. But after looking closer, he realized it was 4 toy train cars.
A Pan Am pilot? They evidently traveled back in time, too. 😊
Fun! What I would expect from a C-57D pilot.
That was a joke?
Hal
Nothin' like a good joke to lighten the air a bit 
You're lucky that one didn't tank out of the box
It's all in the delivery
@D500 posted:They were last seen by a PanAm pilot at 12,000 feet....headed south...
There should be a warning label on the boxes!
Har. I like.
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Once, while working as a computer programmer for the GM&O/ICG RR (really), I asked if we, the ICG, actually paid the shipper for handling helium tank cars, rather than them paying us, as it made the train lighter, so less diesel was burned.
Really, I did. You know you are in trouble when you realize that you are going to have to explain to your boss that this is a joke.
No wonder my promotions were so slow in coming....
(I corrected my oh, so clever joke above as I realized that I had actually stated it backwards yesterday....don't ever get old...)
Oy.
Great to see humor is alive and well on OGR
@Rusty Traque posted:Or the guys who piloted this:
Rusty
Now that is fun too! One of Buck Rogers? Wonder where it is at?
Get a bunch of those helium cars from Jimmy and maybe we can make it fly again.
By the way, what helium cars are we talking about? Pictures!
@CAPPilot posted:Now that is fun too! One of Buck Rogers? Wonder where it is at?
Get a bunch of those helium cars from Jimmy and maybe we can make it fly again.
By the way, what helium cars are we talking about? Pictures!
This is the old Silvercup Bread rocket used to promote the old "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger" TV show. (And of course, Silvercup bread...) I shot the photo from the tour boat while touring the Soo Locks in back in 1984.
It is currently undergoing a slow restoration at the Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum in Portage Michigan.
I actually remember the Silvercup rocket being in my neighborhood back in the 50's. We go to go inside and see the wondrous stuff. When we exited, they gave us a mini-loaf of Silvercup bread. Great Gosh-O-Golly-Gee-Wiz stuff back then.
Rusty
Glad helium and not hydrogen cars, or they might have Hindenburged on your wooden? deck!
Hey, I saw it, I was on that Pan Am flight!!! 
Don
@Rusty Traque posted:This is the old Silvercup Bread rocket used to promote the old "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger" TV show. (And of course, Silvercup bread...) I shot the photo from the tour boat while touring the Soo Locks in back in 1984.
It is currently undergoing a slow restoration at the Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum in Portage Michigan.
I actually remember the Silvercup rocket being in my neighborhood back in the 50's. We go to go inside and see the wondrous stuff. When we exited, they gave us a mini-loaf of Silvercup bread. Great Gosh-O-Golly-Gee-Wiz stuff back then.
Rusty
I love the Air Zoo.
Brendan
Pilot?
@Brendan posted:You had me until you said Pan Am pilot
Brendan
Agreed! How Soooo last century!
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