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A Pullman-built troop sleeper at the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum. In United States railroad terminology, a troop sleeper was a railroad passenger car which had been constructed to serve as something of a mobile barracks (essentially, a sleeping car) for transporting troops over distances sufficient to require overnight accommodations. This ...
All time flatcar total = 620 (including World War II U.S. Army cars). The following remain in existence: 1 to 6 (6 cars) Flatcars: WP&YR 1900 Capacity = 1.05 tons. Single 4-wheel truck. No air brake. Used on the Taku Tram. Retired in 1951. No. 1 was a passenger car from 1900 to 1916 and a baggage car from 1917 to 1936.
This article concentrates on the height of US Army rail operations on the Fort Eustis Military Railroad from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s prior to divestiture of the rail operations and maintenance missions in the 1970s when they were turned over to civil servants and later to contractors, and the rail training mission transferred to the ...
The U.S. Military Railroad (USMRR) was established by the United States War Department as a separate agency to operate any rail lines seized by the government during the American Civil War. An Act of Congress of 31 January 1862 [ 2 ] authorized President Abraham Lincoln to seize control of the railroads and telegraph for military use in January ...
Virginian Railway hopper car #107768, stored offsite. Steam crane #527665 with boom car #514902. Crane scrapped in 2017, flatcar stored offsite. Virginian Railway 250-ton wrecking derrick B-37 #40037, Southern Railway boxcar #33348; Southern Railway Big John hopper #8638; Norfolk Southern flatcar. Used as a stage for events; 3 Norfolk & Western ...
Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Coach Car-S.P. X7; St. Louis San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Coach No. 661; St. Peter's Chapel Car; Strata-Dome; Sun Lounge (railcar) Super Dome (railcar) Superliner (railcar) Surfliner (railcar)
The mechanical restoration included purchase and installation of newer (1945) trucks to replace the three-axle 1910 trucks which had been installed in the 1929 upgrade. These newer style integral cast trucks were once used under a US Army hospital car. The car also received a new brake system for its six axles and a 45-page engineering analysis.
The train consisted of flat cars with armored covers built by Thrall Car Manufacturing Company in 1957 and 1960, armored guard escort cars rebuilt from US Army hospital train kitchen cars that had been built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1953, plus power, support and buffer cars.