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Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by Tahnya86
when will it sink in that similar trains run year in year out across the USA carrying vehicles to / from :
deployment
exercise
maintainence
manufacurer refurbishment / upgrade
they have done this for decades - yet every few months some chicken little gets spooked and starts hollering
Originally posted by litterbaux
reply to post by Tahnya86
I'm on ATS all the time and this is the first time I've seen this video.
It's probably a maintenance run, it seems like a lot of vehicles but they still need the tires checked, oil changed and other minor maintenance stuff. Cheaper to just pull in fleets by train. Could you imagine all these military vehicles on the freeway? HAHA!
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by Tahnya86
when will it sink in that similar trains run year in year out across the USA carrying vehicles to / from :
deployment
exercise
maintainence
manufacurer refurbishment / upgrade
they have done this for decades - yet every few months some chicken little gets spooked and starts hollering
Originally posted by kozmo
Originally posted by litterbaux
reply to post by Tahnya86
I'm on ATS all the time and this is the first time I've seen this video.
It's probably a maintenance run, it seems like a lot of vehicles but they still need the tires checked, oil changed and other minor maintenance stuff. Cheaper to just pull in fleets by train. Could you imagine all these military vehicles on the freeway? HAHA!
Please... maintenance checks are done in the local motor pool. There is no reason to spend millions shipping vehicles for "maintenance checks" - NONE!
Originally posted by kozmo
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by Tahnya86
when will it sink in that similar trains run year in year out across the USA carrying vehicles to / from :
deployment
exercise
maintainence
manufacurer refurbishment / upgrade
they have done this for decades - yet every few months some chicken little gets spooked and starts hollering
That may be true... but nowhere near the volume of the past 2 years. I have a medical reserve post near me - let me repeat that... MEDICAL RESERVISTS. It has been here for nearly a dozen years and has always had the motor pool filled with Humvees, a few transports and containers for moving medical supplies. Over the past 2 years the motor pool has increased to include several tanks, armored troop transports outfitted with weaponry, armored humvees complete with turrets etc... Several years ago everything in the motor pool was painted desert camo - today it is all forrest green camo.
Am I implying that this is for martial law? I honestly don't know. But I can postiviely state that the type of preparedness occuring on this reserve center is completely out of the ordinary.
Originally posted by Tahnya86
reply to post by hdutton
Well, i aint no chicken whos hollering, im a Australian who was investigating and expressing concern, but thank you for the information, and also , id like to see the locomotive that was pulling it, thats a heavy load even with the mass/weight shift thanks to the rail cars.
Originally posted by Tahnya86
reply to post by hdutton
Well, i aint no chicken whos hollering, im a Australian who was investigating and expressing concern, but thank you for the information, and also , id like to see the locomotive that was pulling it, thats a heavy load even with the mass/weight shift thanks to the rail cars.