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The DODX Guard Car No. G-56 is a historic railroad car at the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.It was built about 1942 by the American Car and Foundry Company, and is a rare surviving example of a World War II troop transport, and as a railroad guard car used by the United States Department of Defense in the management of hazardous and valuable cargos that it transported by rail.
DMVW - Dakota, Missouri Valley and Western Railroad; DNAX - Dana Railcare; DNE - Duluth and Northeastern Railroad; DOCX - Du Pont Canada, Inc. DODU - United States Department of Defense; DODX - United States Department of Defense (Military Traffic Management Command) DODZ - United States Department of Defense; DOEX - Doe Run Resources Corporation
DODX Guard Car No. G-56; K. Kansas City Southern Railway Caboose No. 383; Kansas City Southern Railway Locomotive No. 73D and Caboose No. 385; M.
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 ...
The military use of railways derives from their ability to move troops or materiel rapidly and, less usually, on their use as a platform for military systems, like very large railroad guns and armoured trains, in their own right. Railways have been employed for military purposes in wartime since the Revolutions of 1848.
DODX Guard Car No. G-56; Duluth and Northeastern 28; ... Pennsylvania Railroad Odd D 10003; R. Rahway Valley 15; Reading 902 and 903; Reading 1187; Reading 1251 ...
Train pulling the Garrison car, which would be painted to resemble a standard rail car. (Missile hidden inside) On December 19, 1986, the White House announced that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had given approval to a plan for the development of a railroad-based system for basing part of the planned LGM-118 Peacekeeper – originally referred to as MX for "Missile, Experimental ...
The United States Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons Transport Train, known as the White Train, was used to transport nuclear weapons for most of the Cold War.From 1951 to 1987, the Department of Energy's Office of Secure Transportation (OST) used the train to move the weapons from the Pantex plant in the Texas panhandle, where they had been constructed. [1]