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 method allowed part of the trip to be made overnight, reducing the amount of transit time required and increasing travel efficiency.
In United States railroad terminology, a troopsleeper was a railroad passenger car which had been constructed to serve as something of a mobile barracks...
troops took their meals in their seats or bunks). Troop hospital cars, also based on the troopsleeper carbody, transported wounded servicemen and typically...
rail car, such as a troopsleeper (US Army, World War II) a troopship or smaller vessel used to carry military personnel Armored Troop Carrier, a riverine...
named passenger trains Napa Valley Wine Train Seaboard Air Line 6113 Troopsleeper (Troop kitchen) Kachel, Edwin (1937), A Quarter of a Century with the Traveling...
The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose...
by the leader, like a bedroom and bathroom carriage, and others are troopsleeper carriages carrying security guards and medical staff. In 2001 the train...
midget submarines. HMAS Kuttabul, a converted ferry being used as a troopsleeper, was hit and sunk. 21 sailors were killed: 19 Australians and two members...
who used their tabors for the protection of marching troops as well. Troopsleeper Jonathan Simon; Christopher Riley-Smith (2002). The Oxford History of...
descriptions of redirect targets Railbox – American owner of boxcars Stock car Troopsleeper An exception in Australia was the former South Australian Railways,...
and Modeling Society, Inc. Pearce, Bill. (2005). "Express Reefer from troopsleeper in N." Model Railroader 72 (12) 62–65. Reefer Operations on Model Railroads...
used for longer excursions behind PM 1225. Pere Marquette #361. Former TroopSleeper. Now 1225's tool car. Grand Trunk Western Track Foreman's/ Bunk Car...
the war. Troopsleeper "Troop Train". U.S. Office of War Information. 1943 – via Internet Archive. Troop Train at IMDb The short film Troop Train is available...
or derailing protection of railroad ploughs for railroad destruction Troopsleepers The German Wehrmacht sometimes used a flatcar to carry a light tank...
Railroad ("Katy") diesel switcher 1029, as well as Commuter Cars, Pullman TroopSleepers, Dining Cars, Post Office and Baggage Cars, Cabooses and more. The museum...
power car ex-Amtrak, US Army Rebuilt by Amtrak in the 1970s from a 1951 troopsleeper and Out of Service. 727 Fort Mitchell Combine car/ADA car ex-Central...
Seventy-one people are killed, most of them U.S. troops. The first troopsleepers enter service on U.S. railroads. The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel...
Lima, the film is based on The Disney Afternoon television series Goof Troop created by Robert Taylor and Michael Peraza Jr., and serves as a standalone...
DL&W steam engine and diesel, caboose, boxcar, a former World War II troopsleeper that the DL&W converted to maintenance of way service, and numerous...
and Ohio Railroad modern lightweight coach the La Paz, a preserved troopsleeper, an early Southern Railway business car, and former RI #428 (El Comedor)...
cars in the years before World War II, and Boston & Maine converted troopsleeper baggage cars after the war. Boston received fish from the Maritimes...
1972. Numbers #7048, #7091, #7099, #7128, #7134 (named Southhampton) TroopSleeper #7478 [14] One car Pullman-Standard Operational Used on the dinner train...
He directed the football sleeper hit Possums in 1998 In 2008 he created and executive produced the Nickelodeon series The Troop along with Chris Morgan...
or derailing protection, to railroad ploughs for track destruction. Troopsleepers The German Wehrmacht would sometimes use a flatbed car to carry a Fremdgerät...
Negotiator, The Parent Trap, and There's Something About Mary to become sleeper hits. Fewer sequels and less escapist entertainment were scheduled for...
stainless steel sleeping car. Many of the head-end cars were former troopsleepers converted to baggage cars. Most were New Haven and Boston & Maine cars...
leads to the upper bed, which normally features a railing to prevent the sleeper from falling off. Some models also have a privacy curtain for the lower...
allow passage of two late-running northbound sleepers. Its presence was then overlooked, and the southbound troop train was cleared for passage. As a result...
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