[Accrs] Military trains going through San Jose

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

Interesting Wayne,
I havent noticed the trains, but I shall be on the lookout now. Seems the
military is on high alert status these days, seen a few articles like this
one:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/us/politics/military-exercises-north-korea-pentagon.html

I know that starting today Nellis AFB in Nevada is doing operation Red
Flag, a war game simulating combat in which GPS satellites have been
compromised by the enemy. That said, as I understand it they are using
actual GPS signal jammers during this month long exercise so GPS,
theoretically, will no work for civilians in Las Vegas. It also may affect
us in California periodically under the right atmospheric conditions. We
will see.

Some of my army reserve coworkers have been deployed a lot recently to
various trainings and excercises, ecxcept for that weekend of the
government shutdown, they were excited for a break. One of them has been
heading to Fort Hunter Liggett along highway 101 for some exercise there.
Its very possible these trains are headed that way.

All this to say I don't know exactly the purpose of these trains, but the
military is very busy these days so its not surprising.

-Joel



On Jan 26, 2018 4:26 AM, "Alameda County Central Railroad Society" <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Wayne Toigo  w_toigo at hotmail.com
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> Several rather long military trains have been passing through the San Jose
> area lately. I caught one parked near the Santa Clara CalTrain station, and
> later that evening it went roaring through Morgan Hill headed south. It was
> pulled by 3 of the larger BNSF locomotives. The cargo seemed to be armored
> troop carriers, haulers and flatbed trailers, generators and containers,
> and other military construction equipment. All the equipment was loaded on
> individual flatbed cars (which looked to me like container flatbeds).
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> I understand from others that there have been many of these trains headed
> south recently. Any idea where they are going and why?
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> -Wayne
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