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America’s Fighting Railroads A World War 2 Pictorial History Soft Cover 1996
Americas Fighting Railroads A World War 2 Pictorial History Soft Cover 1996
Copyright 1996
Soft Cover
By Don DeNevi
142 Pages
The war in which the United States found itself in December of 1941 made greater demands upon transportation than any conflict in its history. This fact was spectacularly illustrated by the vast distances that American troops and supplies had to traverse to reach such faraway places as Australia, the Solomon Islands, and North Africa. At the time, U.S. railroads had so much less equipment than a decade before that it seemed improbable they would be able to meet all the demands for both freight and passenger service, which far exceeded expectations. But, by the end of World War II, the nation's railroads had doubled in freight traffic and quadrupled the passenger traffic handled by them. In mid-1945, they had virtually succeeded in remedying all the major problems during the four years of war effort, including severe winters, carloadings, minimum transports, etc. And, never since Pearl Harbor had the greatest war effort for production and combat ever made by any nation been hampered by lack of railroad service.
This book is a graphic appreciation of patriotic and effective endeavor by railroad management, railroad employees, and shippers and government agencies that cooperated with those railroads. The book's photos, which were taken by some of America's leading railroad and military photographers, show various types of locomotives hauling military movements, wartime freight, and passenger trains turned troop carriers. This illustrated memoir should prove of interest to World War II buffs, railroad fans, model builders, photographers, hobbyists, and Canadian and American citizens.
I. THE BIGGEST JOB IN RAILROAD HISTORY
II. THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM25
Organization For War America's Railway Service in 1941-1942
Massing For Total War The Role Of Southern Pacific in 1942
1942: The Year All Railroad Records Were Broken
III. THE MILITARY RAILWAY SERVICE51
The Alaska Railroad During World War II
The Alaskan White Pass and Yukon Route
IV. 1943-1944: VICTORIES ON ALL FRONTS73
1944 Railway Operations
The Diesel-Electric Locomotive: Making Railroad Utilization More Known
The Military Railway Service Drives Toward Berlin
V. FINAL VICTORY: GREAT DAYS AHEAD FOR AMERICA'S RAILROADS
A JOB STILL To BE FINISHED99
VI. CONCLUSION107
Plans For the Postwar Traveler
VII. POST SCRIPT-OTHER MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION
USED IN THE WAR EFFORT109
VIII. PHOTOGRAPHS, CHARTS, WARTIME ADS119
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