helium car

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An Aussie submitted this,...

Originally the cars were lettered USNX for the Navy but later were transferred to the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines Helium Field Operations and recoded MHAX. They were indeed used to deliver Helium to the Cape Kennedy complex as well as space and other industries throughout the US. The closing of the Helium Operations by the Government in 1996 meant the cars were withdrawn and some were preserved.

This shot shows them being hauled by NASA 2 at the Cape. Note the water tower in the background, this is for Quenching Water at one of the launch pads.


BTW, I'd like to have a NASA train on my layout even if I didn't have a space port or anything else,....just a NASA loco, some NASA helium cars, and a some NASA liquid oxygen cars. Maybe some solid rocket cars also....