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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
Motto in English
In Pursuit of Knowledge
Type
Public, Institutes of National Importance
Established
2007
Director
Debi Prasad Sarkar[1]
Academic staff
81 Regular Faculty[2]
11 INSPIRE Faculty [3]
Undergraduates
360[4]
Postgraduates
425[5]
Doctoral students
380
Location
Mohali, Punjab, India
30°39′49″N 76°43′39″E / 30.663611°N 76.7275°E / 30.663611; 76.7275Coordinates: 30°39′49″N 76°43′39″E / 30.663611°N 76.7275°E / 30.663611; 76.7275
Campus
Suburban, 125 acres
Affiliations
Autonomous
Website
www.iisermohali.ac.in
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (IISER Mohali) is an autonomous academic institution established in 2007 at Mohali, Punjab, India. It is one of the seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), established by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India, to research in frontier areas of science and to provide science education at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. It was established after IISER Pune and IISER Kolkata and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.
IISER Mohali in spring
Contents
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1 History
2 Academics
3 Rankings
4 Facilities
5 Conferences held
6 Amenities
7 Cultural festival
8 National Science Day celebrations
9 Opportunity Cell
10 Magazine
11 Notable people
11.1 Current faculty
11.2 Former Faculty
12 References
13 External links
History[edit]
The institute was approved by The Planning Commission in New Delhi in July 2006 and land was provided by The Punjab State government.[6] The foundation stone of IISER Mohali was laid on 27 September 2006 by the former Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh.[7] The Computing Facility of IISER Mohali was inaugurated on 3 September 2007 by T. Ramasami (Secretary, Department of Science and Technology).[8] The Earth-breaking ceremony for IISER boundary wall was held on 29 December 2008 at the proposed campus site in Knowledge City, Sector 81, S.A.S. Nagar. The ceremony was performed by N. Sathyamurthy, the founding director of the institute.
C.N.R. Rao inaugurated the Chemistry Research Laboratory on 8 April 2009. The Central Analytical Facility of IISER Mohali has been inaugurated in March 2010. Initially the institute started its working from a transit campus in Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration (MGSIPA), Chandigarh. In March 2010, institute started shifting to its permanent campus in The Knowledge City at Sector 81 with the opening of Central Analytical Facility (CAF) and completed the shifting in May 2013 by shutting operations in MGSIPAP complex, Sector 26, Chandigarh.
Academics[edit]
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The institute offers the following programmes:
Integrated Master's level (B.S.-M.S.): Admission to this programmes is after 10+2 years of school training and is done through the IISERs Joint Admissions Committee.[9]
Integrated Doctoral Programme (Int. Ph.D.): Integrated Ph.D. involves a master's degree (M.S.) followed by a doctorate (Ph.D.). Students after three years of undergraduate education can join the program.
Doctoral Programme (Ph.D.): Admission to the doctoral programme requires a master's degree in science. It is notable that IISER Mohali has an active Humanities & Social Sciences Department, which too offers PhD positions.
Rankings[edit]
University rankings
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2018)[10]
55
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali was ranked 55 in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in overall ranking in 2018.[10]
Facilities[edit]
NMR Research Facility (NMR)
X-ray Facility - X-ray Diffraction Crystallograph
Cell Culture Facility
Atomic Force microscope
Laser Raman and AFM Facility-Raman Infra red spectroscope
Circular Dichroic Spectrometer
Atmospheric Chemistry Facility
Computing Facility
Scanning Electron Microscopy
DC Sputtering
PLD Machine
Cryostats
FemtoLaser facility
Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS)
Laser micro-Raman spectroscope
Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer
Conferences held[edit]
7th JNOST Conference: 15–18 December 2011[11]
History of Chemistry in India, 2013
Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, 2013
ICTS program: Knot theory and its Applications, 10–20 December 2013.[12]
43rd National Seminar on Crystallography: 28–30 March 2014[13]
32nd meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI): 20–22 March 2014[14]
International Workshop "Knots, Braids and Topology", 15–17 October 2014 [15]
International Workshop "ATMW: Lattices--Geometry and Dynamics", 17–22 December 2014 [16]
National Conference on Ethology and Evolution (30 October to 1 November 2015)[17]
International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC) 2015
Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics,2015
30th Annual Conference of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, 15–17 May 2015.[18]
Amenities[edit]
IISER Mohali's stadium (Capacity: >1000)
Health Centre
Counseling Service
Accommodation & Transport
World Class Library
Sports Complex complete with two courts each for basketball, tennis, and volleyball
Cricket cum Football ground in the stadium which has a seating capacity of 1000
Computer Centre with High Performance Scientific Computing cluster
Cultural festival[edit]
IISER Mohali's first cultural festival (Conoscenza) was held in 2012. Spread over three days, a Parliamentary Debate and numerous quizzes were the main events. A workshop on 'science writing' was also organised.
The next year, Conoscenza was replaced by a full-fledged cultural festival- Insomnia. Apart from parliamentary debate and quizzing, the availability of a large auditorium enabled the organisation of events related to music, dance and dramatics.
Insomnia is planned to be held every year; Insomnia 2014 was held between 4 and 6 April.[19]
Insomnia 2015 was held on 27–29 March 2015 and many many cultural, quizzing and gaming contests were the key features of the event and most importantly the theme of Insomnia 2015 was "GO GREEN". [20]
Insomnia 2016 was held from 4–6 March 2016 and saw an attendance of participants and audience from colleges like ISB, IIT's, NIT's, Panjab University, PEC and lot more.[21] Parikrama - The Band performed at the event to a huge crowd.
The past sponsors for INSOMNIA include brands like Hero, Mediacomm, Canara Bank, SBI etc.
Insomnia 2017 was held on 24–26 February 2017.[22] Guthrie Govan, Mohini Dey and Gino Banks performed on the night of 24 February 2017.
National Science Day celebrations[edit]
National Science Day celebrations on 28 February are a regular feature at IISER Mohali, every year.[23] Invitations are sent to schools in Mohali, Chandigarh, Panchkula and nearby areas. The focus of the day is on science and mathematics demonstrations prepared by IISER Mohali students and faculty members. A large number of schools send teams for inter-school competitions such as science quizzes, group discussions, treasure hunt, junkyard wars, poster presentation held on this day. Other non-competitive events such as documentary screening, anti-superstition demonstrations, atc. are also held. The day usually ends with a 'panel discussion' in which the school students ask science-related questions to a panel of faculty members of IISER Mohali. Since 2015, the Science Day celebrations have been shifted to 27 September, IISER Mohali's Foundation Day, as this date is more convenient for school students in the region.
Opportunity Cell[edit]
The Opportunity Cell was first proposed by the Student Representative Council, in October 2011 as a joint student-faculty body to provide guidance to students about research and job opportunities. In the year 2012−13, the opportunity cell established a summer research and internship programme with National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, Connexios Life sciences [24] and Lucid Software Limited (Lucid). It also organised various seminars such as "Alternative Careers in Science", "Research Opportunities at University of St Andrews" etc. Currently the cell disseminates information about summer research programmes, PhD positions and research oriented jobs.[25]
Magazine[edit]
Two editions of IISER Mohali's magazine ("Manthan") have been published so far.[26]
Notable people[edit]
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Current faculty[edit]
Inder Bir Singh Passi, Bhatnagar Prize winning Mathematician
Anand Kumar Bachhawat, Geneticist and Biochemist
Kapil Hari Paranjape, Bhatnagar Prize winning Mathematician
Sudeshna Sinha, Physicist
Anu Sabhlok, Architect and a well known geographer and feminist scholar.
Debi Prasad Sarkar, Bhatnagar Prize winning biochemist
Former Faculty[edit]
Meera Nanda, Historian and Philosopher of Science
Narayanasami Sathyamurthy, Bhatnagar Prize winning Chemist and President of Chemical Research Society of India. He was the director of IISER Mohali from 2007 to 2017.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Executive Positions - IISER Mohali". www.iisermohali.ac.in. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
Jump up ^ "IISER Mohali, Faculty". iisermohali.ac.in. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
Jump up ^ "IISER Mohali, INSPIRE Faculty". iisermohali.ac.in. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
Jump up ^ "IISER Mohali Website". Iisermohali.ac.in. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
Jump up ^ "IISER Mohali website". Iisermohali.ac.in. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
Jump up ^ "New Science Institute to come up in Mohali - OTHER STATES". The Hindu. 2006-07-18. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
Jump up ^ "IISER starts classes from new campus at Mohali". Indian Express. 2011-01-08. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
Jump up ^ "Events - IISER". Iisermohali.ac.in. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "IISER Joint Admissions Committee". www.iiseradmission.in. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2018 (Overall)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2018.
Jump up ^ "National Organic Symposium Trust". Nost.in. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
Jump up ^ https://www.icts.res.in/program/KTH2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
Jump up ^ "National Seminar on Crystallography (43A)". Sites.google.com. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
Jump up ^ [1] Archived 18 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/knot-workshop-2014/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
Jump up ^ http://www.ncmath.org/archives/atms/2014/atmw/lgd. Missing or empty |title= (help)
Jump up ^ "National Conference on Ethology and Evolution : Homepage". Esi2015.com. 2015-11-01. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
Jump up ^ http://30ac.ramanujanmathsociety.org. Missing or empty |title= (help)
Jump up ^ [2] Archived 25 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ [3] Archived 15 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ http://insomniacx.in
Jump up ^ http://insomniafest.xyz
Jump up ^ [4] Archived 29 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ "Connexios Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd". Connexios.com. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
Jump up ^ "Home | Opportunity Cell". Iisermohali.ac.in. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
Jump up ^ "iisermmag | eManthan: IISER Mohali Online Magazine". Iisermmag.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
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American wooden clerestory cars on display at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin, United States.
British Rail Mark 3 coach, an all-steel car from the 1970s
Inside a modern-day car from Finland
A railroad car or railcar (American and Canadian English),[a] railway wagon or railway carriage (UK and UIC), also called a train car or train wagon, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport system (a railroad/railway). Such cars, when coupled together and hauled by one or more locomotives, form a train. Alternatively, some passenger cars are self-propelled in which case they may be either single railcars or make up multiple units.
The term "car" is commonly used by itself in American English when a rail context is implicit. Indian English sometimes uses "bogie" in the same manner,[1] though the term has other meanings in other variants of English. In American English, "railcar" is a generic term for a railway vehicle; in other countries "railcar" refers specifically to a self-propelled, powered, railway vehicle.
Although some cars exist for the railroad's own use – for track maintenance purposes, for example – most carry a revenue-earning load of passengers or freight, and may be classified accordingly as passenger cars or coaches on the one hand or freight cars (or wagons) on the other.
Contents
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1 Passenger cars
2 Freight cars
2.1 Types of freight cars
3 Aluminium cars
4 Non-revenue cars
5 Military cars
5.1 Mobile missile systems
6 See also
7 Notes
7.1 Footnotes
7.2 Citations
7.3 Further reading
8 External links
Passenger cars[edit]
Main article: Passenger car (rail)
Passenger cars, or coaches, vary in their internal fittings:
In standard-gauge cars, seating is usually configured into ranges of between three and five seats across the width of the car, with an aisle in between (resulting in arrangements of 2+1, 2+2 or 3+2 seats) or at the side. Tables may be provided between seats facing one another. Alternatively, seats facing in the same direction may have access to a fold-down ledge on the back of the seat in front.
If the aisle is located between seats, seat rows may face the same direction, or be grouped, with twin rows facing each other.
In some vehicles intended for commuter services, seats are positioned with their backs to the side walls, either on one side or more commonly on both, facing each other across the aisle. This gives a wide accessway and allows room for standing passengers at peak times, as well as improving loading and unloading speeds.
If the aisle is at the side, the car is usually divided into small compartments. These usually contain six seats, although sometimes in second class they contain eight, and sometimes in first class they contain four.
Passenger cars can take the electricity supply for heating and lighting equipment from either of two main sources: directly from a head end power generator on the locomotive via bus cables, or by an axle-powered generator which continuously charges batteries whenever the train is in motion.
Modern cars usually have either air-conditioning or windows that can be opened (sometimes, for safety, not so far that one can hang out), or sometimes both. Various types of onboard train toilet facilities may also be provided.
Other types of passenger car exist, especially for long journeys, such as the dining car, parlor car, disco car, and in rare cases theater and movie theater car. In some cases another type of car is temporarily converted to one of these for an event.
Observation cars were built for the rear of many famous trains to allow the passengers to view the scenery. These proved popular, leading to the development of dome cars multiple units of which could be placed mid-train, and featured a glass-enclosed upper level extending above the normal roof to provide passengers with a better view.
Sleeping cars outfitted with (generally) small bedrooms allow passengers to sleep through their night-time trips, while couchette cars provide more basic sleeping accommodation. Long-distance trains often require baggage cars for the passengers' luggage. In European practice it used to be common for day coaches to be formed of compartments seating 6 or 8 passengers, with access from a side corridor. In the UK, Corridor coaches fell into disfavor in the 1960s and 1970s partially because open coaches are considered more secure by women traveling alone.
Another distinction is between single- and double deck train cars. An example of a double decker is the Amtrak superliner.
A "trainset" (or "set") is a semi-permanently arranged formation of cars, rather than one created "ad hoc" out of whatever cars are available. These are only broken up and reshuffled 'on shed' (in the maintenance depot). Trains are then built of one or more of these 'sets' coupled together as needed for the capacity of that train.
Often, but not always, passenger cars in a train are linked together with enclosed, flexible gangway connections through which passengers and crewmen can walk. Some designs incorporate semi-permanent connections between cars and may have a full-width connection, effectively making them one long, articulated 'car'. In North America, passenger cars also employ tightlock couplings to keep a train together in the event of a derailment or other accident.
Many multiple unit trains consist of cars which are semi-permanently coupled into sets: these sets may be joined together to form larger trains, but generally passengers can only move around between cars within a set. This "closed" arrangement keeps parties of travellers and their luggage together, and hence allows the separate sets to be easily split to go separate ways. Some multiple-unit trainsets are designed so that corridor connections can be easily opened between coupled sets; this generally requires driving cabs either set to the side or (as in the Dutch Koploper) above the passenger compartment. These cabs or driving trailers are also useful for quickly reversing the train.
Freight cars[edit]
Main article: Goods wagon
Further information: Rail freight transport
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Types of freight cars[edit]
Freight cars (US), goods wagons (UIC), or trucks (UK) exist in a wide variety of types, adapted to carry a host of goods. Originally there were very few types of cars; the flat car or wagon, and the boxcar (US/Canada), covered wagon (UIC) or van (UK), were among the first. Freight cars or goods wagons are generally categorized as follows:
Boxcar (US and Canada), covered wagon (UIC) or van (UIC): fully enclosed car with side or end doors. Standard boxcars have about 3.5 times the capacity of a standard Semi-trailer.[2]
Covered wagon (UIC), van (UIC) or boxcar (US/Canada): fully enclosed wagon for moisture-susceptible goods.
Hicube boxcars: high-capacity high-clearance boxcar
Refrigerator car or reefer (US/Canada): refrigerated boxcar for fruits and vegetables.
CargoBeamer
Coil car: specialized flat or gondola for heavy sheet metal rolls
Combine car: combined passenger car and boxcar in one wagon
Flatcar (or flat): for larger bulky loads. Specialized flat cars include:
Aircraft Parts Car: with fixtures for large aircraft parts.
Autorack (also called auto carriers): multi-level flat for automobiles.
Centerbeam cars (US): specialized flat for building materials.
Conflat (UK): specialized flat for containers.
CargoSprinter: self-propelled container flat.
Container flatcar
Depressed-center flatcar or Wellcar or Lowmac (UK): for high-clearance loads (e.g. transformers and boilers)
Semi-trailer flatcar
Rolling highway: a train designed to carry trucks and/or semi-trailers
Single container car; Spine car, a center sill and side sill only car with lateral arms to support intermodal containers. See also Well car.
Double container car; Well car or double-stack car. Cars for transporting Intermodal containers with a low deck to allow double stacking, commonly used in articulated form. See also Spine car
Schnabel car: for unusually large and heavy industrial equipment (transformers, boilers, reactors, distillation columns,...)
Gondola (US): car with open top, enclosed sides and ends for bulk goods.
Covered hopper: specialized hopper car with a cover for weather sensitive loads (grain, pellets,...)
Open wagon (UIC): railway wagon with an open top but enclosed sides and ends, for bulk commodities and other goods that might slide off.
Hoppers: similar to gondolas but with bottom dump doors for easy unloading of things like coal, ore, grain, cement, ballast and the like. Short hoppers for carrying iron ore are called ore jennys in the US.
Lorry (US/Canada): An open wagon (UIC) or gondola (US/Canada) with a tipping trough, often found in mines. See also Tippler.
Mine car
Mine cart.
Side dump cars: used to transport roadbed materials such as, ballast, riprap, and large stone, and are able to unload anywhere along the track.
Tippler (UK): An open wagon with no doors or roof which are unloaded by being inverted on a Wagon Tippler (UK) or Rotary car dumper (US/Canada). They are, used for minerals, such as coal, limestone and iron ore as well as other bulk cargo. See also Lorry.
Quarry tub: a type of small railway or tramway wagon used in quarries for the transport minerals, such as coal, limestone and iron ore.
Modalohr Road Trailer Carriers.
Presflo and Prestwin (UK), bulk cement wagons
Roll-block: a train designed to carry another railway train
Slate wagon: specialized freight cars used to transport slate
Stock Car: ventilated box car for livestock
Tank car (US/Canada), tank wagon (UIC) or tanker: for liquid or gas.
British Milk Tank
Milk car: specialized tank car for milk
Tank cars for bulk loading
"Whale Belly" car: high capacity tank car with a "belly".
Transporter wagon: a wagon designed to carry other railway equipment.
American style Hopper Car
Tank Car
U.S. type Boxcar
Articulated Well Cars with containers
A Spine car with a 20 ft tanktainer and an open-top 20 ft container with canvas cover
A DR rail maintenance vehicle converted from a former freight van
Presflo bulk cement wagon (UK)
Aluminium cars[edit]
The first two main-line all aluminum passenger cars were exhibited at the 1933-35 Chicago World's Fair by Pullman Company.[3] Aluminum freighcars have a higher net-to-tare ratio of 4.9 than traditional steel based wagons, which have 3.65.[4]
Non-revenue cars[edit]
Typical American extended vision caboose.
Ballast regulator
Ballast tamper
Barrier vehicle, A different coupler at each end.
Caboose (US) or Brake van (UIC) attach to rear to watch freight trains, assist in reverse moves, and provide rear braking. Replaced by End-Of-Train devices.
Clearance car, special car to check for obstructions.
Crew car aka Outfit Car or a Camp Car,[5] a bunk, kitchen, or tool car for railroad employees.
Handcars, early MOW car powered by passengers with a handcrank.
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Armored train Hurban located in Zvolen, Slovakia
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Anti-tank: equipped with anti-tank guns, usually in a tank gun turret
Artillery: fielding mixture of guns and machine guns
Command: similar to infantry wagons, but designed to be a train command center
DODX is the reporting mark for the United States Department of Defense Military Traffic Management Command.[6]
Infantry: fielding machine guns, designed to carry infantry units
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Platform: unarmoured, with purposes ranging from transport of ammunition or vehicles, through track repair or derailing protection of railroad ploughs for railroad destruction.
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Mobile missile systems[edit]
Soviet RT-23 Molodets ICBM launch train, in the St Petersburg museum
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union fielded a number of trains that served as mobile missile silos. These trains carried the missile and everything necessary to launch, and were kept moving around the railway network to make them difficult to find and destroy in a first-strike attack. A similar rail-borne system was proposed in the United States of America for the LGM-30 Minuteman in the 1960s, and the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison in the 1980s, but neither were deployed.[7] The Strategic Air Command's 1st Combat Evaluation RBS "Express" did deploy from Barksdale Air Force Base with radar bomb scoring units mounted on military railroad cars with supporting equipment, to score simulated thermonuclear bombing of cities in the continental United States.[8]
Train-based ICBMs do offer some advantages over missiles in fixed silos, namely that the enemy can never be sure where they are—or, more accurately, where all of them are at any given moment. But as a 2014 RAND study[9] pointed out, rail and truck launchers have their drawbacks. Maintaining a missile on a train is more difficult than in a silo, while rail lines and roads can be blocked by snow, which tends to restrict railroad ICBMs to warmer climates. In addition, because there are only a limited number of rail lines and highways in an area, enemy surveillance can focus on a few areas. And, once located, mobile missiles are more vulnerable than ICBMs in hardened silos.[10]
See also[edit]
Air brake
Great Western Railway wagons
List of railway vehicles
List of rolling stock manufacturers
Rail car tracking device
Railway brakes
Rolling stock
Tender
Tram
Types of goods wagon
UIC classification of goods wagons
Vacuum brake
Notes[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
Jump up ^ In the US, a "railroad car" is often referred to more simply as a "rail car" or "railcar", but this should not be confused with the self-propelled railcar.
Citations[edit]
Jump up ^ Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary: bogie
Jump up ^ Usatch, Brad (November 23, 2016). "Railroading sees a bit of rebirth". The Chronicle. Barton, Vermont. pp. 1A. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
Jump up ^ John H. White, Jr. (1985). The American Railroad Passenger Car. JHU Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-8018-2743-3.
Jump up ^ ECONOMICS OF HEAVY AXLE LOADS
Jump up ^ "General Code of Operating Rules: Section 5.12: Protection of Occupied Outfit Cars". Retrieved 2008-06-19.
Jump up ^ Index of DODX
Jump up ^ Gen. Thomas S. Power, USAF (September 1960). "Strategic Air Command" (PDF). Air Force Magazine. Retrieved 30 Aug 2010. A special SAC task force was established at Hill AFB, Utah, to conduct a series of deployments with a Minuteman Mobility Test Train. The first deployment ended June 27 after seven days of random travel over existing civilian rail facilities in the Ogden area. The test series will continue through the fall of 1960 with other rail movements in the Far West and Midwest....
Jump up ^ "In regards to the SAC radar bomb scoring squadron mounted on railroad cars" (PDF). Mobile Military Radar web site. 22 Feb 2007. pp. 12K. Retrieved 30 Aug 2010. The trains were 21 cars long, 17 support and 4 radar cars. The radar cars were basically flat cars with the radar vans and equipment mounted on them. The other 17 consisted of a generator car, two box cars (one for radar equipment maintenance, and one for support maintenance). A dining car, two day-room cars, supply cars, admin car, and 4 Pullman sleepers.... The Commander had the very last room on the tail of the train.... The trains would go to some area in the U.S. which was selected for that period by a regular contracted locomotive which then just parked us there and left, usually pulled onto a siding.
Jump up ^ http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1210.html
Jump up ^ http://nationalinterest.org/blog/russias-nuclear-missile-death-train-arriving-2019-19581
Further reading[edit]
Matthias N. Forney (1974) [1879]. The Railroad Car Builder's Dictionary. Dover Publications, Inc.
White, John H. (1978). The American Railroad Passenger Car. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801819652. OCLC 2798188.
White, John H. Jr. (1993). The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-4404-5. OCLC 26130632.
External links[edit]
List of railroad car manufacturers by country (in French)
History of the Ralston Steel Car Company, Columbus, Ohio
Paquette Railway Solutions, dealing with rolling stock and power
US Air Force Guard Car G-50 Strategic Air Command guard car, rebuilt from Army 1943 troop kitchen car #8750. Photographed in Portola, California at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum.
Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Car.
Guide to Railcars[dead link]
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