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Image:Troop sleeper interior.jpg|{{Troop sleeper interior.jpg/credit}}<br />An interior view of a restored Pullman troop sleeper configured for nighttime use. | Image:Troop sleeper interior.jpg|{{Troop sleeper interior.jpg/credit}}<br />An interior view of a restored Pullman troop sleeper configured for nighttime use. | ||
Image:ATSF troop train.jpg|{{ATSF troop train.jpg/credit}}<br />A Pullman porter assists soldiers returning from the South Pacific aboard an [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] troop train. | Image:ATSF troop train.jpg|{{ATSF troop train.jpg/credit}}<br />A Pullman porter assists soldiers returning from the South Pacific aboard an [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] troop train. | ||
Image:ATSF troop train porter.jpg|{{ATSF troop train porter.jpg/credit}}A Pullman porter accepts a pair of boots to be polished from a soldier in a sleeping berth aboard an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway military train. | Image:ATSF troop train porter.jpg|{{ATSF troop train porter.jpg/credit}}<br />A Pullman porter accepts a pair of boots to be polished from a soldier in a sleeping berth aboard an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway military train. | ||
Image:Life on a troop train.jpg|{{Life on a troop train.jpg/credit}}<br />"What life is like on a troop train..." a print advertisement published by the [[New York Central System]] in support of the War Bond drive. | Image:Life on a troop train.jpg|{{Life on a troop train.jpg/credit}}<br />"What life is like on a troop train..." a print advertisement published by the [[New York Central System]] in support of the War Bond drive. | ||
Image:ACF troop kitchen diagram.jpg|{{ACF troop kitchen diagram.jpg/credit}}<br />An ACF-built troop kitchen car, based on the A.A.R. standard 50 ft 6 in box car design. | Image:ACF troop kitchen diagram.jpg|{{ACF troop kitchen diagram.jpg/credit}}<br />An ACF-built troop kitchen car, based on the A.A.R. standard 50 ft 6 in box car design. | ||
Latest revision as of 14:39, 6 September 2013
(CC) Photo: Robin Bowers / TrainWeb.com
An interior view of a restored Pullman troop sleeper configured for nighttime use.
© Photo: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
A Pullman porter assists soldiers returning from the South Pacific aboard an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway troop train.
© Photo: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
A Pullman porter accepts a pair of boots to be polished from a soldier in a sleeping berth aboard an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway military train.
© Image: New York Central System
"What life is like on a troop train..." a print advertisement published by the New York Central System in support of the War Bond drive.
© Diagram: American Car and Foundry Company
An ACF-built troop kitchen car, based on the A.A.R. standard 50 ft 6 in box car design.
© Image: New York Central System
"Trains in White..." a print advertisement published by the New York Central System in support of the War Bond drive.
(PD) Image: United States Army
The function of the hospital train is to move wounded to the nearest available rail head to points outside the combat area.
(PD) Photo: United States Army Signal Corps
Wounded are being placed in berths of U.S. Army "Medical Department Hospital Ward Car" on Pier 5, Newport News, Virginia, May 29, 1943.
(PD) Photo: United States Army Signal Corps
Colonel T. M. Lowry, Port Surgeon, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, standing beside "Medical Department Hospital Ward Car" USA 8906 on Pier 5, Newport News, Virginia, May 29, 1943. The car is standing by awaiting debarkation of 204 wounded American soldiers from Tunisia.
© Photo: Otto Perry / Denver Public Library
Pullman Company troop sleeper #8483 stands idle at Denver, Colorado on April 22, 1946.
(CC) Photo: J.S. Sand / TrainWeb.com
Railway Express Agency refrigerator car #6687, a converted World War II troop sleeper. Note the square panels along the sides that cover the former window openings.
© Photo: Unknown
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad #914130, a troop sleeper that has been converted to a steam generator car.
