Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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.
For a small railroad, the FEMRR rostered a surprising extensive collection of passenger, freight, maintenance-of-way and other cars, totaling 168 pieces. Most of these were equipped with traditional AAR knuckle couplers , but a number were outfitted with European link-type buffers and chain couplers at one or both ends in case they were needed ...
Passenger cars (UIC: railway coaches) and related equipment used on railroads in the United States. Pages in category "Rail passenger cars of the United States" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
Two were rebuilt from business cars to track geometry cars: #80 (renumbered from #43) Rio Grande River (ex-SP 3700) and #87 (renumbered from #42) Skagit River (ex-SP 3702). 3734, 3740, 3744, 3745 Pullman-Standard Gallery: Converted to "Ultra Dome" cars and in service with Princess Tours. [34] [35] 4300 St. Louis Car Company postal storage
The Ferdinand Magellan (also known as U.S. Car. No. 1) is a former Pullman Company private car that served as Presidential Rail Car, U.S. Number 1 from 1943 until 1958. It is named after the Portuguese explorer. The current owner, Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami-Dade County, Florida, acquired it in 1959.
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.