BNSF Railway train J-SDGDAG-24A is the longest six-car train you’ll ever see, as nearly half the train’s length is made up by Kasgro Rail Lines Schnabel car 3600. KRL 3600 is, at 270-feet 7.2-inches (82.3 m) in length (with this load), the largest rail car in the world. Seen here crossing over the Santa Ana River (and crossing from Orange to Anaheim, California), this high/wide train originated in San Onofre, site of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, where it picked up one of the decommissioned power plant’s three 770-ton reactor pressure vessels (RPV), which this train will haul to Apex, Nevada (just beyond Las Vegas), where it will be offloaded onto a highway truck to continue to Utah’s low-level (Class A) nuclear waste in Clive, about 75 miles west of Salt Lake City, where this radioactive cylinder will be buried. BNSF SD70ACe 8597 and ES44AC 6245 are the power to Yermo, in California’s Mojave Desert, where the train will be handed off to Union Pacific to continue to Nevada with UP AC6000CW 7056 and SD70ACe 8969 for power. (Orange, California – May 25, 2020)
