page_title: Jeep train
section_title: U.S.A.
hierarchical_section_title: Jeep train / History / U.S.A.
caption_attribution_description: English: Jeep switch engine used by soldiers during a test run on a 1 meter narrow gauge track in Brisbane, Australia on 30 June 1943: A ¼ ton jeep fitted with rail wheels can easily pull 20.000.000 pounds. The main purpose of these rail jeeps was to haul flatcars loaded with supplies in New Guinea. This demonstration was held at Eagle Farm Aerodrome in Brisbane, Australia. At the wheel is Brig Gen C W Connell, Commanding General, Air Service Command. To his right are LTC Donald Thomas, Boise, Idaho and LTC R L Fry, Pocatella, Idaho. Brisbane, Australia, 30 June 1943. See www.team-bhp.com/...
context_page_description: Jeep train usually refers to a railway train hauled by jeeps with flanged rail wheels. World War II jeeps were converted from road vehicles into steel-wheeled rail switchers, light locomotives, or speeders.
context_section_description: Adapting automobiles as gasoline railcars is recorded as early as 1912 and early publicity on Jeeps mentioned their potential use as an inspection car. The USAAF in Australia used flanged-wheel jeeps as switchers in 1943, which led to testing as road-switchers for future operations in New Guinea. Perhaps the first large-scale use of jeep as locomotive was in the CBI theatre.  Eleven days after the Normandy landing, jeep speeders were in use on the continent, surveying lines for use or repair.
  Postwar, jeep speeders were used as inspection cars, and jeep trains used for light service, including recreation.  The Jeep train at Lewis and Clark Caverns
  claimed to be the shortest jeep railway. Over time, hi-rail vehicles pushed dedicated speeders out of railroads; civilian jeeps were often used.
caption: US Demonstration run on a 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) track at Eagle Farm Aerodrome in Brisbane, Australia on 30 June 1943: A Jeep fitted with rail wheels could easily pull 10 tons.[3]
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