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topic: 332Military Railways book, 1917
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posted: 11 Feb 2008 15:07

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Hello,

Just came across an interesting pointer on RMweb by 'pacific231k':

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17566

"Someone who has a copy of the 1917 US Army Corps of Engineers manual on building and operating military railways has done the world the great service of scanning the entire 194 pages as a pdf. This is fascinating stuff and includes both the operation of permanent railways - mostly civilian railways taken into military use- and so called "combat railways" and "supply railways" of the type used on the Western Front. What is particularly interesting is that the manual is drawing on lessons from the Boer and American Civil Wars (which was closer in time to WW1 than WW2 is to us now) rather than on what had already by then been learned by the French and British during WW1." :

http://www.trainweb.org/girr/military_railways/military_railways.html

The book includes a copious amount of detail on trackwork, try e.g.:

pages 128 to 156 Turnout design and construction.

Regards,

Rodney Hills



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