RoughDoc@aol.com wrote:
> Even more interesting is that those units in Milwaukee, are the LAST and ONLY
> train units in the US Army of any type!
>
> Rail has been something that the military has ignored for years now. I look
> back at the Gulf War, and know that we could have saved all sorts of wear and
> tear on our vehicles and resupplied quicker if we had installed a light rail
> system. The technology exists today to install it quickly over long lengths.
I live along the Union Pacific Tucumcari, NM to Kansas City, MO main line (at
the time Southern Pacific's Saint Louis Southwestern -- The Cotton Belt). During
the build-up for the Gulf War there were at lest two trains a day, with nothing
but military equipment. The last time that I was at Fort Riley, KS there was a
spur and small yard in use.
Later
Michael Clark
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