Tiedown Handbook for Rail Movements Third Edition 1995 Spiral Bound MTMCTEA

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This is the third edition of the pamphlet. It contains some changes and improvements over the earlier editions. However, do not destroy the earlier editions because they are still usable. This pamphlet will aid the soldier in ensuring safe rail transport of equipment. It contains general information, procedures, and figures for the correct tiedown of military equipment on railcars.

This pamphlet covers minimum standards; your local railroad may require additional securement based on the condition of the railcar or other factors that cannot be standardized. The pamphlet is not designed to cover every vehicle in the US Army inventory. The vehicles covered herein are those most commonly transported by rail. When in doubt, check the AAR Loading Rules, TM 55-2200-001-12, Application of Blocking, Bracing and Tiedown Materials for Rail Transport, Transportability Guidance Technical Manuals, or check with the railroad transporting your equipment.

In this third edition, we have kept most of the information from the earlier editions. To ease the transition to this edition, we have kept most page numbers the same as in earlier editions. On each tiedown figure, we have updated the pertinent figure and section numbers from the Association of American Railroads loading rules for cross referencing. The most significant changes are in Appendix C (chain tiedown). For heavy tracked vehicles like the M I tank, the number of chains required has been reduced from 24 to 16 per tank on the DODX 40000-series flatcars. Also, the new procedure for the MI tank with mine plow has been added. We have provided for gun barrel securement for the M2 and M3 Bradley vehicles to prevent the turret from turning allowing the gun to extend over the side of the flatcar (a safety problem). We slso added the palletized load system, the M109A6 howitzer, and the M1000 semitrailer and its tractor. We have added the procedure to lace the ramp on all series of M577 vehicles since the latches may not hold. In Appendix B, we lowered the wire rope restraint values due to failures during transportability testing. This generally reflects changes already made at the test sites.

The earlier editions lack the above changes, but they will satisfy your other needs. You may want to compare the third edition with the earlier editions to annotate changes in your earlier pamphlets. Because of printing costs, we are printing only a limited supply of the third edition. Please feel free to make copies of the pamphlet at your own discretion.

We invite users of this pamphlet to recommend changes and submit comments. Please prepare comments on DA Form 2028 (Recommended Changes to Publications and Blank Forms) or in a similar format and forward to the address given on the back of the title page (p. ii).

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I. REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL EQUIPMENT 1

II.WHEELED VEHICLES 3

A. Wheeled Vehicles on General-Purpose Flatcars 3

B. Wheeled Vehicles on Chain-Equipped Flatcars 7

C. Trailers and Semitrailers on General-Purpose Flatcars 10

D. Trailers and Semitrailers on Chain-Equipped Flatcars 10

E. Vehicles on Bilevel Flatcars 11

III. TRACKED VEHICLES 13

A. Shackles 13

B. Tracked Vehicles on General-Purpose Flatcars 13

C. Tracked Vehicles on Chain-Equipped Flatcars 16

IV. BLOCKING 17

V. TOOLS FOR RAIL LOADING 19

VI. TIPS AND COMMON MISTAKES 23

A. Preparing Vehicles Prior to Loading 23

B. Preparing Railcars for Loading 23

C. Loading Vehicles 24

D. Securing Vehicles 24

APPENDIXES

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A Blocking A-1

BTiedown Guide for General-Purpose Flatcars B-1

CTiedown Guide for TOFC and Chain-Tiedown Flatcars C-1

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