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Is this a US military armored vehicle modified for railroad use? Is the vehicle depicted below some form of US military armored vehicle modified for use on railroads? Is it an MRAP so modified? Is it self-powered or simply able to be towed by a locomotive? !Image of armored vehicle captioned as modified MRAP

Almost certainly not.

Google and Tineye reverse image searches both trace back to this image on Flickr, which describes it as a "Padda" armored patrol vehicle used by the South African railways. Google image searching on variations of "padda armored vehicle" bring up similar-looking images such as this one. Perhaps there's mass confusion between a jerry-rigged rail MRAP and the "Padda" (there's precedent: the depicted vehicle has also been misidentified as a rail-adapted version of the Casspir landmine-protected vehicle), but more likely, it's exactly what the Flickr caption says it is.

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