The Whiskey River Railway

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Thank you Pete. And also I'd like to thank you for your prior service.

I was doing some research to how prototype military bases handled rail traffic in the early days of WW2 and the best prototype I could find that would fit the approximate size Camp Pierre would be is Camp Claiborne, LA. I was hoping that Ft. McCoy, WI would have more on it's history either on the .mil website or other sources since that'd be the closest thing, but I couldn't find a map that showed the rail lines from the 1940's. I also considered Ft. Eustis, Ft. Bragg, and Ft. Campbell but they were either too big of posts or having a lack of information. However, I do know that Camp Pierre will be a busy place once it is put into operation, receiving box car loads of supplies, reefers for the food to feed Soldiers, flatcars for both incoming and outgoing vehicles, hoppers for the coal-fired boiler house and for the barracks (fire guard, YAY hock: ), and both WRRy passenger cars of local recruits coming in and Pullman cars going out to places on the East Coast. I might just have to get a USRA 0-6-0 to handle switching on post decorated in USATC garb... oh the possibilities. And think of the special moves that'd have to take place, from my understanding when you completed your training and you hopped on that train, you stayed on that train until you've reach your port of call. Motive power would change from railroad to railroad, but that's about it.

Also if anyone has any information or prior experiences with troop trains, I'm all ears (well, eyes for here )