That’s one dang big bucket
good thing they didn’t need to worry about
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Are any of you familiar with the magazine Railroad Model Craftsman? If not, they used to have a monthly one or two page segment called “That ain’t prototypic!”, in which they would discuss things that model railroaders would do that no real railroad would ever do, and yet they would give photographic evidence and sometimes company fact sheets on the practice.
That flat car with a big orange spool of pipe or wire, that looks like a toy! That looks like an old 70s or '80s Tyco toy. I’m glad I still have some of those old Tyco toys now, LOL.
Frenchie, thanks again for keeping the hits coming!
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Photoshop (1910 edition) :
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Not a flat car but interesting nonetheless
Armored cabooses designed to protect Navy nuclear waste trains
Armored-caboose-designed-to-protect-navy-nuclear-trains-is-about-to-start-its-final-testing
From Belarus (BelAZ heavy dump trucks and wheel loader)
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It is mostly flat though, the roof is curved so it is not made of only flat sheet metal …
I don’t know why that sounds funny to me, butt… 
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Ring seal gates for the Grand Coulee Dam, Washington (1935)
Concrete bucket train en route to the same dam
Penstock to be used on the dam site at the fabrication plant in Electric City, Washington.
Here’s another hydraulic turbine scroll case (Robin was right about the first one 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_turbine
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZEaArP4D_I
Time to double-check clearance one last time…
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Double stack trash trains
Union Pacific ArroWedge on UP intermodal train
The 48-foot Arrowedge® has a tapered body that allows air to more easily flow around the train’s top frontmost containers.
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Nuclear waste trains
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(bits of) V-2 rockets
V-2 tail sections being moved by train to the port at Antwerp with a final destination at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.
Godzilla movie (2013) missile train
USAF train :
A flatcar loaded with a Peacekeeper Stage IV Emplacement Container
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/2323802/losing-piece-air-force-history-1864-scrapped
A railcar carrying carrying an electronic testbed version of a U.S. Navy Trident D5 submarine-launched ballistic missile is positioned at the rail yard at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
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More unusual military stuff…
5"/54-caliber MK-42 gun turret (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-inch/54-caliber_Mark_42_gun ) :
RIM-2 Terrier surface-to-air missile launcher ([RIM-2 Terrier - Wikipedia] )
Mystery dummy mobile missile launcher 
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The first three pictures are purpose-built wagons transporting cuboid spent fuel containers to (full) or from (empty) Sellafield. The white-painted superstructures slide to one end of the wagon to allow the flask to be lifted out. The fourth picture is of half-height ISO containers of low level waste moving from Sellafield to Drigg for permanent storage. The last three photos are of wagons used in Europe for moving cylindrical spent fuel containers to (full) or from (empty) Cap La Hague in France. The labelling in the fifth and seventh photos may suggest these are full containers on the way for reprocessing, the sixth photo is unclear. In this instance the white “sun shade” splits in the middle before each part moves to it’s end of the wagon, allowing the recumbent cylinder to be pivoted into a vertical position and then lifted clear. Somewhere in the deep stash I have a limited edition 1:87th scale prebuilt HO railroad model of an earlier design of one of these wagons, with sliding covers and removable flask…
Cheers,
M
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Flasks? Do you mean like hip flasks? Person would have to be pretty big just to strap one of those around their hip. I guess radiation is doing its thing!
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