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back in 1973, some of the locals thought a nuke had exploded on the ranch
http://tucson.com/gallery/news/blogs/photo_blog/photos-munitions-explosion-on-tucson-bound-train/collection_f27d5a68-f997-11e4-b5f9-fbbae243407d.html#0
one of the captions mentions windows breaking in a house 5 miles away. that was my grandparents house, where I now live. there are still several train cars buried near the site and a few of years ago a Border Patrol agent trying to track some migrants (OMG they actually got out of their vehicles back then!) found a live bomb a hundred yards off the righ-of-way. bomb squad came and detonated it. somewhere I have some pictures of that small crater.
still lots of shrapnel around, occasionally a cow gets crippled from the sharp metal.
we came down from Tempe right after this and my Father took some pictures too, I will have to see if I can find them.
