Railroad Car - Military Cars

Military Cars

Military armoured trains use several types of specialized cars:

  • artillery: fielding mixture of guns and machine guns
  • infantry: fielding machine guns, designed to carry infantry units
  • machine gun: dedicated to machine guns
  • anti-air: equipped with anti-air guns
  • command: similar to infantry wagons, but designed to be a train command center
  • anti-tank: equipped with anti-tank guns, usually in a tank gun turret
  • platform: unarmoured, with purposes ranging from transport of ammunition or vehicles, through track repair or derailing protection to railroad ploughs for railroad destruction.
  • troop sleepers
  • DODX is the reporting mark for the United States Department of Defense Military Traffic Management Command.

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