Rail Transportation Training Manuals - for U.S. Army ("Everything You Always Wanted to Know" - almost)

Paul_D_North_Jr · March 20, 2009, 5:16pm

All -

I stumbled across the above-referenced manuals on-line today. I don’t know who Integrated Publishing Co. is, but they’ve put a whole bunch of interesting info on the Internet, in “htm” = hyper-text markup" format if I understand that right. It’s only 1 page per link, so it can be slow to read, but it’s good stuff, as you’ll see from my couple comments below. I may try to post more on this another time.

Enjoy !

Paul North.

Go to: http://www.tpub.com/content/armytransportation/

where you should find the list of links to about 30 such manuals, among them the following:

Railroad Design and Rehabilitaiton (TI-850-02, dated 2000)

Rail Operations Planning (TR 603) -see the train density formula for single track operations on about pp. 19 - 20;

Rail Operations - Yard (TR 636)

Rail Operations - Dispatching (TR 638) - RWM, check out the nice things it says about the DS in the beginning of Chapter 1- Principles;

Railway Rolling Stock (TR 655)

Diesel-Electric Locomotives (TR 656)

Railway Track Maintenance (TR 670)

Maintenance of Diesel-Electric* Locomotives and Rolling Stock (TR 675)

[* - link says “Electronic”, but the book itself is titled “Electric”, thank goodness]

Loading, Blocking and Bracing on Rail Cars (TR 690)

Supervise Hazardous Material Handling (TR 1029)

CShaveRR · March 20, 2009, 5:24pm

“Everything I always wanted to know”, eh?

[}:)]

Any railcar processing/sorting facilities?

Paul_D_North_Jr · March 20, 2009, 5:57pm

Carl - Yeah, I expected that ! [;)]

See: http://www.tpub.com/content/armytransportation/TR0636/ = Rail Operations, Yard

Paul North.

Deggesty · March 20, 2009, 6:00pm

Should this be required reading for anyone who wants to improve car sorting operations?

Does it include maintenance of all the high-tech control circuits and such that seem be required on diesel-electric locomotives?

Johnny

Railway_Man · March 20, 2009, 6:22pm

I think you’re pulling our leg!

I glanced through a few sections and these appear to be a half-century out-of-date, and are basically a very simplified introduction to some of the principles.

RWM

greyhounds · March 20, 2009, 6:32pm

All -

I stumbled across the above-referenced manuals on-line today. I don’t know who Integrated Publishing Co. is, but they’ve put a whole bunch of interesting info on the Internet, in “htm” = hyper-text markup" format if I understand that right. It’s only 1 page per link, so it can be slow to read, but it’s good stuff, as you’ll see from my couple comments below. I may try to post more on this another time.

Enjoy !

Paul North.

Go to: http://www.tpub.com/content/armytransportation/

where you should find the list of links to about 30 such manuals, among them the following:

Railroad Design and Rehabilitaiton (TI-850-02, dated 2000)

Rail Operations Planning (TR 603) -see the train density formula for single track operations on about pp. 19 - 20;

Rail Operations - Yard (TR 636)

Rail Operations - Dispatching (TR 638) - RWM, check out the nice things it says about the DS in the beginning of Chapter 1- Principles;

Railway Rolling Stock (TR 655)

Diesel-Electric Locomotives (TR 656)

Railway Track Maintenance (TR 670)

Maintenance of Diesel-Electric* Locomotives and Rolling Stock (TR 675)

[* - link says “Electronic”, but the book itself is titled “Electric”, thank goodness]

Loading, Blocking and Bracing on Rail Cars (TR 690)

Supervise Hazardous Material Handling (TR 1029)

Sounds like they’ve got the old rail transportation correspondence course. The Army’s “Transportation School” was (still is, I guess) at Ft. Eustis, VA. They’d bring soldiers there to teach 'em transportation the “Army Way”