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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.
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 ...
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.
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)
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 ...
US Army Field Manual FM 55-20, Figure 8-8, Department of the Army, Washington DC; Car and Locomotive Cyclopedia 1970; Forney, Matthias N. (1879). The Railroad Car Builder's Dictionary. Dover Publications. White, John H. (1978). The American Railroad Passenger Car. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801819652. OCLC 2798188.
front cover G1 1930. This is the Group G series List of the United States military vehicles by (Ordnance) supply catalog designation, – one of the alpha-numeric "standard nomenclature lists" (SNL) that were part of the overall list of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog designation, a supply catalog that was used by the United States Army Ordnance Department / Ordnance Corps as ...
Military Railway service SSI. The Military Railway Service was created in the 1920s as a reserve force of the United States Army.It had existed twice before: first as the United States Military Railroad during the American Civil War, and later as the United States Railroad Administration during World War I.