Taken April of 1981, inside Edwards AFB (California)...this ATSF train, was getting ready to carry a special load for NASA...after the space shuttle Columbia's first flight/landing at EAFB. They then loaded all the support equipment up...and hauled it 3,000 miles east to Kennedy Space Center.
Nice Mike. I remember the day of the first shuttle lift off. I was eleven, went out in the backyard to check my new live catch trap. I guess critters don't like Spaghetti as bait...went back in the house and watched the shuttle. I think Rush's "Tom Sawyer" was a hit at the time.
Boy, I bet the crew was sweatin' rollin down them tracks! I've seen better track on abandond branch lines!
Edwards was full of "sagebrush" ballast...they had alot of old lines from its Pre-WWII days...just rusting away on various areas of the base...that was never pulled up.
I too remember the first shuttle launch, My father and I were on the last tour at the KSC to go out before they shut them down to roll out the shuttle the next morn. as we were returning to Visitors Center the crawler was on it's way to the VAB( Vehicle Ass. Building) to pick up the Columbia for it's first flight. What an awesome site it was
Found another shot... approximately around the same time frame...give or take a month or two...this time its March 1982....this particular move, might have been, when the shuttle landed in New Mexico....(Whitesands AFB) instead of Edwards...and they were moving the equipment there...
