Here is a partial list of the cities. I know there were more.
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| Author: | tomgears [ Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | 1941 Defense Train |
I recently found out about a 1941 train, or I should say three trains, operated by the government to find suppliers for the defense industry in smaller cities. In all of my years of reading and learning about trains I've never came upon this one. If you're interested in it please see my blog posting. If anyone happens to have color photos of the train I'd love to see it in color. http://www.wilmingtonmemories.com/2020/03/the-defense-train-came-to-wilmington.html |
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| Author: | Les Beckman [ Tue Mar 03, 2020 10:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1941 Defense Train |
Tom - Very interesting. The one train is shown behind a Baltimore & Ohio steam locomotive. What about the other trains? Do you have the routing of all three? Les |
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| Author: | tomgears [ Tue Mar 03, 2020 11:07 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: 1941 Defense Train | ||
Here is a partial list of the cities. I know there were more.
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| Author: | Rick A [ Wed Mar 04, 2020 11:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1941 Defense Train |
That's really interesting to me as the Ashton Valve company was purchased by the Defense Plant corporation in 1942 along with Crosby valve and gauge in order to produce valves and gauges for the war effort. http://what-when-how.com/the-american-e ... ation-dpc/ https://archive.org/details/defensecont ... or+defense http://railroadfan.com/phpbb/download/f ... &mode=view http://railroadfan.com/phpbb/download/f ... &mode=view https://archive.org/details/americanmir ... orporation |
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| Author: | nedsn3 [ Thu Mar 05, 2020 7:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 1941 Defense Train |
Now this is very interesting! I've never heard of this before now. Thanks for posting it Tom! Ned |
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