RE: [CBQ] Steam Troop Train

["Harold Huber" <sarge9@bresnan.net>]

Rich,

Although way later and ATSF, I rode a steam, heavy weight train from El Paso TX (Ft Bliss) Basic Training to Ft. Ord, CA  for Infantry Advanced Training in 1965.  Great Trip.  This was the Viet Nam buildup.

Harold Huber

Ultimate Research, LLC

Retired Command Sergeants Major

US Army, Light Infantry

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Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 9:03 AM
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Subject: [CBQ] Steam Troop Train

 

In looking through the Kalmbach Burlington Route book we have been discussing, one of the photos is an O-5 leading a troop train from Chicago passing the articulated 2nd TCZ bound for Chicago - in Minneapolis.  Since the book was copyrighted in 1947, this photo has to be sometime between 1944 (there are the Pullman-Standard troop sleepers) and early 1947.  I've often wondered about the frequency of the Q hauling troop trains in WWII and the Korean War.  It seems like there would be better routes than the Q for troop trains, though I suppose that the Q/GN or Q/NP route would be fine for the Washington state camps.  Any comments on the Q and troop trains?

 

Rich G.

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