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UPY 561 westbound with a solid rocket motor car at Woods Cross, Utah, 04/01/01.
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Those cars carry sections of the solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle from Thikol near Brigham City, Utah, to the Cape. I think this one was being moved down to Salt Lake for repairs.
 
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We get to see them from time to time in 5 & 6 car movements on the KCS; nicknamed rocket trains. With the shuttle fleet grounded...I don't think we'll be seeing a "rocket train" anytime soon.
 
dda40x
"We get to see them from time to time in 5 & 6 car movements on the KCS; nicknamed rocket trains. With the shuttle fleet grounded...I don't think we'll be seeing a "rocket train" anytime soon."

I don't know Zack, I saw a "rocket train" departing east from the Thiokol loadout west of Brigham City, UT. on September 28.
 

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