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Good question... I have been looking into this as well. I did find some reference to the hospital kitchen cars in "The Transportation Corps: Movements, Training, and Supply Book by Chester Wardlow; Office of the Chief of Military History, 1956." Very limited info... Some other comments I have come across, the vesibules were sheeted over to make more room for stretchers. Some of the pullmans had large or wide baggage type doors installed for ease of tranport of litter patients to and from the car on each side. Some litter patients were transported to the car through a window. One woman at a show saw my train, and commented that her father was a doctor serving on a hospital train. She said, "It was the worst time for her father... he commented the "emergency" surgery was performed only when to save a life, motion on the train was too dangerous. Additionally, all of the windows were blacked out so outsiders couldn't look into the train. Most of the passengers on these trains were severly injured with grievous wounds." I'm still looking for info... even ran across a brief blurb on mortuary trains that did nothing else but carry war dead. Hmmm. Marc in Madison
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