UP 66' ROCKET BOOSTER FLATCAR

UNION PACIFIC

Rocket Train Booster Car - Ready to Run -- Union Pacific(R) #50023

Features for the 66' Rocket Booster Flatcar include:
• Newly tooled protective hood
• Newly tooled refrigeration unit with flexible piping on specified cars
• Heavy die-cast metal body for improved tracking and performance
• Correct 36" RP-25 metal wheels
• Minimum radius: 24"
• Available in both prototypical and special commemorative schemes
celebrating NASA and the historic Artemis moon missions.
• Proto MAX™ metal knuckle couplers

NASA Rocket Booster Train
Did you know, some of our journeys to space begin with a much more grounded
form of transportation? Add a truly unique operation to your layout today with
the HO Scale NASA Solid Rocket Booster Train from WalthersMainline. First
introduced with the Space Shuttle program in 1981, NASA’s rocket train was used
to transport the solid rocket boosters from Morton Thiokol in Utah to the Kennedy
Space Center in Florida. The train features heavy-duty, 4-truck flatcars that carry
rocket components under protective hoods. Some of the cars that carry the SRB
propellant have refrigeration units to keep the temperature constant. The train
also includes spacer and clearance cars between the flatcars carrying the SRB
components. While the original train was retired in 2011 with the retirement of
the Space Shuttle, it was re-introduced in 2020 with the start of the Artemis lunar
program, delivering the SRB components for the Space Launch System rocket.