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During the Afghanistan and Iraq Invasions solid trains of DDOX Flats combined with any other similar flat were screaming down the MP Main several times a week at what must be over track speed empty. I counted over one hundred flats including hefty ones strong enough for Battle Tanks.I remember Aberdeen Proving Grounds and the Ordinance Museum. That facility had rail tracks ALL over running here and there but nary anything going on whenever we were on base at the Comissary shopping or visiting the museum about the time the Vietnam war was going on. The track was in such robust good condition I just knew they do things when we civilians are not around in the night. =)I have been on many installations in trucking and recall tracks were everywhere.Sadly I think the NLR AFB in Jacksonville was actually pulling up rails to make new construction. They did keep the old pathways open as trails for exercise or training in the woods.I recall stories of world war one railroads that did good service.Civil War railroads endured much destruction and in some cases invented new ways to fight a war with troop movements and other ways of fighting.I have had learned about how they would move a Corps from Texas to the ports in a few books using rail. Interesting stuff.Finally I know of several passenger cars used by SAC as Missile Bases and some very special Cars. I think the USSR relies heavily on ultra-secret military trains for thier nuclear war efforts, heck I think the whole USSR rail was there for the use of the State not the people.
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