The US Military Almost Deployed Nuclear Missile Trains on American Railroads During the Cold War
According to a 1992 assessment of the project by Air Force Lt. Col. Terrence G. Crossey, 25 of the military service’s trains would hold two 71-foot Peacekeepers apiece, totaling 50 missiles overall, with another fifty missiles designated for Minuteman silos. The trains would be located at the program’s main operating base, F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, and garrisons at six other bases, dispersed onto the U.S. rail network only when the strategic alert level hit a certain point.