Office of the General Manager
100 Railroad Avenue
Monetesano, Washington
CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8.13 DATE: January 1, 1955
BY AUTHORITY OF:
S.B.Clinard
President and General Manager ___________________________________________________________________________________
Outfit Train
Where there is much track to lay the first thing to get ready is the outfit train. It should consist essentially of bunk or sleeping cars, kitchen car and dining cars, for the men; a tool car, a supply and office car, a locomotive, car-load of fuel; a water tank car, if needed; and a caboose for the train crew.
Where the grades are not steep the best arrangement is to put the dining, kitchen, bunk and office cars to the front, as then they do not have to be handled by the locomotive in running back after material; it also gives the cooks better opportunity to do their work, and the dining cars are always on hand at meal time.
The office and bunk cars should be ahead, followed by the dining car, with the kitchen car coupled in next behind. If there are two dining cars the kitchen car should be between them. Next comes a commisary car with food, water and cooking fuel.
Some outfit cars have end doors in all the cars, so that one may walk through the train from end to end.
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