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Classic Trains Special Edition #24 2019 Special #2 Trains Go To War
Classic Trains Special Edition #24 2019 Special #2 Trains Go To War
Classic Trains Special Edition #24
2019 Special #2
Contents
CIVIL WAR
6 When Railroading Went to War
BY E. JOHN LONG
Some soldiers, both Union and Confederate, went into battle holding a throttle instead of a rifle
WORLD WAR I
14 Railroads at the Front
BY R. S. TWOGOOD
Portable rail lines do a better job of military supply than trucks, and with less manpower
20 The Very First USRA Engine
BY FREDERICK WESTING
Baldwin employed extraordinary measures to complete the first "McAdoo" 2-8-2 in record time
WORLD WAR II
28 Military Railway Service in Italy
BY GILMORE W. REID
A lieutenant with a flair for art provides an illustrated firsthand account of Army rail operations
34 Narrow Gauge on Oahu Island
BY WILLIAM MOORE
Unencumbered by interchange difficulties, a 3-foot-gauge line far out in the Pacific does a rushing war business
40 54 Minutes at Marion
Quick action by Erie Railroad men kept a train of troops and their equipment on the move
44 Herr Goebbels Was Wrong
BY ELMER T. HOWSON
Despite the predictions of the Nazi propaganda chief, America's railroads successfully met the challenge of war
46 They Were Not Scrapped
How the New Haven reactivated 58 old steam locomotives and put them to work moving wartime traffic
52 Tracks to Victory
How the U.S. Army's Military Railway Service in North Africa and Europe helped defeat Nazi Germany
64 Bivouac for Army Railroaders
DATA FROM WILLIAM T. CHURCH
Railway Operating Battalion personnel trained on a Louisiana pike known as the "Crime & Punishment"
70 Troop Cars
BY PATRICK C. WIDER
Boxcar-inspired sleepers and kitchen cars were expeditious answers to the railroads' wartime capacity crunch
KOREAN WAR
78 Why We Never Stopped the Red
Railroads in Korea
BY JAMES A. VAN FLEET
The commanding general of U.S. forces in Korea describes the remarkable resil-
iency of rail facilities in time of war
90 The Stewart Special
BY E. JOHN LONG
Soldiers and Marines cheered at the passage of a train carrying desperately needed supplies for Seoul
VIETNAM WAR
94 Railroading Where the
ietition is a War
BY JERRY A. PINKEPANK
DATA FROM PAUL S. STEPHANUS
Beset by war and weather for 30 years,
South Vietnam's rail system struggles to keep going
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