Interesting sight on the rails

[flyingron]

I guess this is a regular occurrence if you live between Witchita and Renton, but I'd never seen it before (don't spend that much time in Bradshaw, Nebraska where the video was taken)

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10214674945818319

737 fuselages from Spirit Aerosystems on the way to Boeing.

 

[wanttaja]

Here's an even more interesting sight OFF the rails...

Ron Wanttaja

 

[Zeldman]

Here's an even more interesting sight OFF the rails...

Ron Wanttaja

Wait, these weren't 737-800 MAX fuselages, were they.??

 

[GRG55]

Wait, these weren't 737-800 MAX fuselages, were they.??

Couldn't be. Two of the three are pitched UP.

 

[Crashnburn]

New definition of flying low!

 

[SoonerAviator]

Couldn't be. Two of the three are pitched UP.

“Our hulls are infused with MCAS from the start of the manufacturing process!” - Boeing exec, probably

 

[Sinistar]

The next couple of cars after the planes look kinda spooky. I hope the workers aren't in those.

 

[Pilawt]

Good article on it in the September 2019 issue of Trains magazine.

 

[Jim K]

Here's an even more interesting sight OFF the rails...

Ron Wanttaja

Something really eerie/creepy/post-apocalyptic about this photo.

Couldn't be. Two of the three are pitched UP.

Everybody go home @GRG55 just won the internet

 

[MuseChaser]

Here's an even more interesting sight OFF the rails...

Ron Wanttaja

Not really sure why, but this sort of reminds me of the scene at the end of the original Planet of the Apes w/ Charlton Heston...

 

[qbynewbie]

Cool video! Thanks for posting that. I didn't realize that these planes started out as rail cargo.

 

[Kansas Flyer]

The next couple of cars after the planes look kinda spooky. I hope the workers aren't in those.

Those contain more parts from spirit, i'm not exactly sure what parts though. I remember after the derailment quite a few folks I know that work for spirit were working a bunch of overtime to replace the lost fuselages. They also had a backlog in shipping as they had to wait for new rail cars to be built.

 

[GeorgeC]

Here's an even more interesting sight OFF the rails...
Ron Wanttaja

Aw, they're swimming upstream to spawn.

 

[GRG55]

Aw, they're swimming upstream to spawn.

LOL.

In the old days (the '70s) some creative talent would have made a Rainier Beer commercial out of this.

 

[flyingron]

The next couple of cars after the planes look kinda spooky. I hope the workers aren't in those.

Those are the next load of pilots being shipped out from Flight Safety.