Peacekeeper Rail Garrison

what is it?

The Peacekeeper Rail Garrison was a railcar-launched ICBM that was developed by the United States Air Force during the 1980s as part of a plan to place fifty MGM-118A Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles on the rail network of the United States. The railcars were intended, in case of increased threat of nuclear war, to be deployed onto the nation's rail network to avoid being destroyed by a first strike counterforce attack by the Soviet Union. However, the plan was canceled as part of defense cutbacks following the end of the Cold War, and the Peacekeeper missiles were installed in silo launchers as LGM-118s instead.

who runs it

United States Air Force

base stats

• weight 250 tin working order
• built 2made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

• 🎂First built 36 years ago, in 1990.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 42 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏26.5 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
• ⌛Served for 1 years (1990–1991).

carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.

spec sheet

built

1990

in service from

1990

retired

1991

status

retired

number built

2

kind

carriage / wagon

origin

🇺🇸 United States

builders

Rockwell International

operators

United States Air Force

top speed

—

power

—

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

length

26.5 m

weight

250 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.