Atomic Train Fuel Drums
Kusan Atomic Train (1957-1960) | |
| The Kusan KF-110 Atomic Train (0 gauge) was the first toy train to have an 'atomic theme.' It was produced between 1957 and 1960 by Kusan-Auburn of Franklin Tennessee. Kusan-Auburn was a subsidiary of Kusan, a plastics manufacturer. The company described it as 'An exciting new train with extra play value in each unit.' The photo to the right shows the diesel locomotive car with a machine gun turret. | |
| The photo to the right shows the reactor car. The red lights flash to indicate when the reactor is in operation. Note the small upside-down radiation warning symbol (trefoil) on the side of the reactor. This was Kusan's first toy train and its introduction was the subject of an article in the June 29, 1957 issue of Business Week. | |
| After the initial success of the Atomic Train, Kusan produced a couple of other toy trains, but the competition from Lionel became too great and Kusan got out of the toy train business in 1960. This photo shows a flat car carrying an atomic canon - since atomic cannons fired nuclear explosives, they required a long range. The three atomic projectiles that came with it are missing. It actually recoils when fired! | |
| The photo to the right shows a flat car with a missile (decals missing) of the 'Honest John' class, presumably employing an atomic warhead. Another neat thing about the Kusan train was that it ran on realistic-looking two rail track (not shown) rather than the more common three rail track. | |
The photo to the right shows the caboose which serves as a command center. The photo below left shows an advertising flyer for the Atomic Train. Kusan subsequently produced a radar car and a searchlight car that could be added to the train. | |
Generously donated by Steven Woolfolk. | I have seen two retail prices for the train set: $39.95 and $44.95. At least one retailer, Ernie Television of Syracuse New York, gave a free Kusan atomic train (a '$59.95 value') as a 'Special Christmas Offer' to everyone who purchased a Sylvania Slimline TV. The promotion indicated that the Atomic train was a 'Winner of Top 10 Mechanical Toys for 1957.' Stream player alexa. References AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control customer master keys (CMKs), the encryption keys used to encrypt your data. Aws kms developer guide. AWS KMS is a secure and resilient service that uses hardware security modules that have been validated under FIPS 140-2, or are in the process of being validated, to protect your keys. AWS KMS is integrated with AWS CloudTrail to provide you with logs of all key usage to help meet your regulatory and compliance needs. AWS KMS is a managed service that is integrated with various other AWS Services. You can use it in your applications to create, store and control encryption keys to encrypt your data. KMS allows you to gain more control for access to the data that you encrypt. KMS assures 9999% durability of. AWS KMS supports symmetric and asymmetric CMKs. A symmetric CMK represents a 256-bit key that is used for encryption and decryption. An asymmetric CMK represents an RSA key pair that is used for encryption and decryption or signing and verification (but not both), or an elliptic curve (ECC) key pair that is used for signing and verification. Lubenau, J., Horner, J. Atomic Toy Trains. Train Collectors Quarterly. Vol. 45, No. 3; July 1999. Kusan-Auburn. Atomic Train advertising flyer. No date. |
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Atomic Train Crash
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- The atomic train pulled out of Loviisa railway station on 18 August at ten to seven o’clock in the evening, 33 years ago. The train’s time of departure was a closely-held secret. However, press photographer Lauri Sorvoja had received a tip, and he photographed the first nuclear waste train in Finland on its way to the radioactive waste.
- A train carrying a Russian atomic weapon is on a runaway course with disaster - and time's running out! Only John Seger, a renegade investigator for the NTSB, can stop the speeding locomotive.
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The Atomic Train was Kusan's idea of what such a product might look like if there were such a thing in the real world. The train set was intended to tap into a child's imaginiation and make them think that they could fight and win the ultimate conflict of World War III.
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