Spectacular source for general railroad info!

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While searching the great abyss for some information on building a ballasted deck bridge for my diarama, I stumbled on this little gem that I thought you all should know about.

Need to know how to recover a rolled locomotive out from a ditch? Need to know how a yard works? Most importantly, how to design bridges?!

FOLLOW ME!! [dinner]

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Great site, but it is MILITARY procedures!! It may follow some regular stateside operations, but I never heard of the UP, Pennsy, or even Conrail having “Defensive” operatings procedures!![:D] It is, as earlier stated a great site!! Thanks!! [:)]

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A truly spectacular source for general railroad info, circa 1940. However, the document is dated 2000. Had the mighty U.S. Army totally overlooked 60 years of railroad operating progress? Sure looks like it.

  • Much head-scratching about communications, with suggestions that telegraph lines can be converted to telephone lines (with instruments at stations with passing sidings.) This in an age when somebody in the middle of the Gobi desert can call his buddy in London on his satellite cell phone, and the U.S. Military can pass digital data packages from (and to) everyone from Joe Grunt in the field to the Commander in Chief in his oval office…
  • Caution that turntables and roundhouses are magnets for enemy air attack. WHAT turntables and roundhouses (and why would the enemy want to bomb museums and restaurants?)
  • Describing TTTO as the top of the tree operating scheme. Hey, General! Ever hear the term track warrant?

If you want to model rail operations in the European Theater after Normandy, this might be useful. In today’s world, it’s about as useful as a full set of maintenance instructions for the standard U.S. Army 2-8-0.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)