The Flickr Sa3 Image Generatr

Cold War. Polish Air Force. Polish Aviation Museum (Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego w Krakowie), Kraków, Poland.

I built that static quad launcher in 2016 and have never posted it on flickr until now.

Special thanks to Errin for advice on the upgraded missiles. They've changed a bit since the old ones.

Missile systems at the Muzeum Polskiej Techniki Wojskowej (Museum of Polish Military Technology) in Warsaw, including an S-125 Neva (SA-3 Goa) quadruple launcher with four V-600 missiles, and a pair of S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) missiles

NEWA 125 SA-3( Goa) and Mikoyan MiG-21UM 9348 (Fishbed), Air Force Museum, Deblin, Poland 2023

Developed in 1932, the Soviet Auto-Latch 3 (SA-3) is one of two coupler designs used by the SNIM railway in Mauritania. The other being Janney type couplers found mostly on North American and Australian railroads. A set of SA-3 couplers is seen here at sunrise, looking down between two ore cars, rolling east somewhere in the Sahara Desert. There are over 30 countries in the world that use couplers based on this design, with a majority of those countries being heavily influenced by the former Soviet Union.

Seen outside Flabob's EAA hangar. I'd never heard of this 1950s amateur-built design before, but it's apparently the ancestor of the Van's RV family.

"Powrót do szerokotorowych korzeni"

Chwilowo wygaszona, szerokotorowa Tamara oczekuje na możliwość wykonania jazdy manewrowej za parą Gagarinów manewrujących po torach stacji Sławków Południowy LHS 😁

📅 **.06.2021
️ Id12-65
🌍 Sławków Południowy LHS
🚆SM48-073

Lecz jest lecz nie wiadomo gdzie 😉

Para szerokotorowych Gagarinów manewruje po torach stacji Sławków Południowy LHS 😁

📅 **.06.2021
️ Id12-65
🌍 Sławków Południowy LHS
🚆ST44-2015
🚆ST44-2***

If the hand-annotated photo number is correct, and based solely on the following linked site, this stunning image is either that of the SA-1 or SA-2 first stage, in bldg. 4705, Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), during some point of its construction & testing.
Note the darkened appearance of the aft end of the fuel tank at the top. It would seem to match that seen in the black & white photo below, which I previously identified as being SA-1, with I believe supporting evidence, once again linked to below.
Although the SA-3 first stage was also within bldg. 4705 during 1961, I don't think it would've been far enough along during clustering/construction to look anything like this.
While I'm winging it, I can't help but notice the circular/cylindrical? object to the farthest left. Possibly the end of a fuel tank? If so, for which launch vehicle…SA-3? Or maybe it’s GSE?

history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/part-2.htm

On a slick glossy photo paper that has the feel of photo film, but thick. Very reminiscent of old-school camera film.

Same one? We'll probably never know, but at least it's another image:

www.allpar.com/threads/chrysler-lifts-nasa-the-next-step-...
Credit: ALLPAR website

Finally, always superior - what we’re looking at nearest the camera:

heroicrelics.org/info/saturn-i-and-ib/block-i-adapter.html
Credit: Mike Jetzer/HEROIC RELICS website

“Third and second stages of Saturn C-1 dwarf men standing near
New rocket will be test fired during week of Oct. 16.”

More specifically, the smaller dummy S-V stage appears to be poised/prepared for a possible trial horizontal assembly/integration with its dummy S-IV stage, ca. 1961. Confirmation of the inert, aka ‘dummy’ configuration of the S-V stage is the notable lack of an engine on the protruding aft dome of its fuel tank. For test flights SA-1 thru SA-4, the fuel tanks of both these stages were filled with water for ballast.
If the verso stamped month is correct (which I don’t think it is), it’s definitely not SA-1.
I have no idea how many of the Block I Saturn launch vehicles were assembled horizontally at this stage of production. However, purportedly, SA-1 was horizontally trial assembled February 1961. Although it means squat, I’ve found no such reference to subsequent Block I vehicles. The only thing for certain is that Saturn C-1/I flights SA-1 - SA-4 all had dummy S-IV & S-V stages, so this is definitely one of them. I’m going with SA-1.

If so, this is a genuinely seldom/if ever-seen, unique, rare & highly coveted photograph of an unproven rocket, the success of its historic flight being fundamental & absolutely critical to achieving the goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth” before the decade was out.

A few additional pointless observations:
I assume this to be in building 4705 at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).
Note what look to be at least five Rocketdyne H-1 engines on floor behind the gentlemen walking & continuing to the right.

7” x 9”.

Saturn Launch Vehicle SA-3.

Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/

Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum

Conrail SA-3 crosses the South River Movable Bridge on the former Raritan River RR right of way with GP40-2 6160 pulling two cars for Silverline at the end of the line. The South River movable bridge is unique to New Jersey, as it is the only bridge in the state that is opened and closed by manpower, requiring two workers to hand-crank the bridge to move it. The bridge was built in 1910, and still sees one train traverse it on the now Conrail Amboy Running Track at least twice a week.

Browns Yard in Sayreville, NJ is still a vital hub for freight traffic in Middlesex/Monmouth County despite the bygone days of electrics hauling freight through the area. One of the customers just outside of Browns Yard is Old Bridge Chemicals, which specializes in making products from copper chemicals. OBC stopped receiving cars for a short period of time a few years ago, but is back to receiving shipments about once a week. Pictured is Conrail Shared Assets SA-3 shoving around the tight curve into Old Bridge Chemicals with GP40-2 6160 and one tank car. The track and lead to access the plant has definitely seen better days.

Cold War, Yugoslav Army. Belgrade Military Museum. Vojni muzej Beograd, Војни музеј Београд. Belgrade Fortress, Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia. Београд, Србија.

Cold War. Yugoslav Army. Belgrade Aviation Museum, Muzej vazduhoplovstva-Beograd / Музеј ваздухопловства-Београд. Surčin, Belgrade, Serbia. Сурчин, Београд, Србија.

Cold War, Yugoslav Army. Military Museum. Vojni muzej Beograd, Војни музеј Београд. Belgrade Fortress, Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia. Београд, Србија.

Cold War, Yugoslav Army. Military Museum. Vojni muzej Beograd, Војни музеј Београд. Belgrade Fortress, Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia. Београд, Србија.

Cold War, Yugoslav Army. Military Museum. Vojni muzej Beograd, Војни музеј Београд. Belgrade Fortress, Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia. Београд, Србија.

Cold War, Yugoslav Army. Military Museum. Vojni muzej Beograd, Војни музеј Београд. Belgrade Fortress, Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia. Београд, Србија.

Cold War, Yugoslav Army. Military Museum. Vojni muzej Beograd, Војни музеј Београд. Belgrade Fortress, Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, Serbia. Београд, Србија.