Bombers on trains in the 70s?

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p51
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Bombers on trains in the 70s?

Sun Aug 27, 2023 8:46 pm

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Are these Tallichet aircraft? Supposedly each taken in 1972.
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Re: Bombers on trains in the 70s?

Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:56 am

WOW! Impressive.
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Re: Bombers on trains in the 70s?

Mon Aug 28, 2023 5:34 am

It looks like the bottom photo could possibly be of at least two of the Million Dollar Valley B-26s that were recovered in late '71.

Mac
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Re: Bombers on trains in the 70s?

Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:42 am

Just a guess on the Liberator:

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b24regis ... 40461.html
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Re: Bombers on trains in the 70s?

Mon Aug 28, 2023 9:52 am

There is the Dave Tallichet story that he bought several B-24s and in transportation by rail the vibrations broke these up enough that they wound up getting scrapped. Could this be one of those?
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Re: Bombers on trains in the 70s?

Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:00 pm

old iron wrote:There is the Dave Tallichet story that he bought several B-24s and in transportation by rail the vibrations broke these up enough that they wound up getting scrapped. Could this be one of those?



These pics are the Tallichet airplanes being shipped from the Yukon, and the scrapping story is correct. One of the B24 noses went to a museum in VA in the 1990's. These days those never would have been scrapped.
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Re: Bombers on trains in the 70s?

Wed Aug 30, 2023 6:25 am

JohnH wrote:
old iron wrote:...One of the B24 noses went to a museum in VA in the 1990's...


https://www.johnweeks.com/b24/b24hampton.html
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Re: Bombers on trains in the 70s?

Sun Sep 03, 2023 10:34 am

JohnH wrote:These pics are the Tallichet airplanes being shipped from the Yukon, and the scrapping story is correct. One of the B24 noses went to a museum in VA in the 1990's. These days those never would have been scrapped.



Considering the rarity of B-24s, I'm surprised they were scrapped even then.
A lot of people were doing a lot of work on warbirds even back then. And remember that B-24s were rare enough for folks to go to the trouble and expense to rescue those 3-4 out of India.

I have a hunch there is more to the story.
At there very least, I hope some of the parts went to support the then healthy PB4Y fleet.
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