has anyone ever seen a car like this before? I caught it about a month ago at the Enola yard in Harrisburg PA. It's a DOD car, and has the shape of a turbine engine, but it just has an "odd" look to it.
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That part is easy. They are part of the new weight lifting sets for being built for 10th Grp soldiers( Carson & Germany) 
. Tankers need not apply.
They have been seen moving around for some time, but no one is able to identify it.
In this video, early on, it appears the clamp is removed after the stand in the front gets tilted an attached. Then it's stood up for removal?
Giant salt shaker or shake a weight are the most popular, with nuclear material transport (doesn't look any known casks) next. The rest are not for this forum.
That's the new transport case for the Stanley Cup. They are starting to get real serious about security.
Originally Posted by Moonman:
They have been seen moving around for some time, but no one is able to identify it.
In this video, early on, it appears the clamp is removed after the stand in the front gets tilted an attached. Then it's stood up for removal?
Giant salt shaker or shake a weight are the most popular, with nuclear material transport (doesn't look any known casks) next. The rest are not for this forum.
If you note. There are no placards. Weight lifting sets for giant special operation soldiers not hazardous. Only if on the receiving end. 
I saw a show on how they ship something that's an extreme hazard. It looked just like that container. It has to withstand an impact of anything you can think of.
There was a Brit comedy movie in the 50s called "You Know What Sailors Are". A few sailors return to their ship after shore leave with armfuls of junk, (including a pawn-shop sign) which they weld up into an odd-looking gadget that's mistaken as the latest advanced military technology.
The comedy of errors meant that by the end of the movie, every ship in the Navy had one. "What's that?" "It's a 998, sir!"
This could be one of those moments.......... 
These are vessels to contain radioactive materials.
That looks like one of the containers tested to move radio active waste from atomic power plants to the storage in Yucca Mountain Nevada.
Of course there is no such place and no such material and no area 51.
The known radioactive containers look nothing like this. There are no placards or the security caboose.
It's still a mystery even on other railfan boards.
It's definitely heavy and the container is more refined than the nuclear spent fuel containers.
Looks like a giant aerator for water treatment facility?
franktrain
Originally Posted by RichO:
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That's what is inside of this:
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They absolutely positively are storage containers for radioactive waste. No if's, ands or butts. There are no placards or security necessary because they are EMPTY.
They are transport containers for spent nuclear waste. Supposed to be next to impossible to breach the container
Tommy posted:They absolutely positively are storage containers for radioactive waste. No if's, ands or butts. There are no placards or security necessary because they are EMPTY.
I knew that but decided to have fun with it. It's not always necessary to identify loads on DOD rail cars. Even empty they still are required to be placard. This is most likely brand new and has not been used.
Tommy and suzuovich,
How do you guys know for a fact that is what is?
The earliest railfan evidence that I found was a 2011 video.
No one factually states any knowledge of it's use on the various boards.
It carries spent nuclear fuel rods to be reprocessed. He's a video of one leaving Petersburg, VA. Rods could be from a Navy vessel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-pLwLYpj6k
Jan
12 axles! ...what you might expect from a car containing a lot of lead.
i'll also go with spent nuclear fuel transport.
check this site... https://www.nei.org/.../Transportation-of-Used-Nuclear-Fuel
cheers...gary
