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1. Gregg Heilman says:
   14 Mar 2010 05:37:03 PM
   
   One night I watched a documentary on Railroads on the History Channel and it mentioned the German invasion of Russia.
   
   All of Russia's railroads had wider locomotives axles, rail car axles and tracks.
   
   Either the Germans had to change the width of the rails, which they did for thousands of miles or transfer their cargoes to captured Russian trains.
   
   The documentary showed the Germans moving one side of the rails over to their own standard width.
   
   They used a gages to keep the width correct and moved the rail mile after mile.
   
   The number 5,000 miles seems to stick with me, and after the war all the rails had to be reset to the Russian width again.
   
   At the time I worked with a few Railroad enthusiasts. They knew about the Russian and German issues during the war and relocating the rails.
2. Bill says:
   10 Feb 2011 06:00:29 PM
   
   ANOTHER TIGER TAKES THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO:
   
   
   Hurry up and wait, same in any army.
   First photo shows the Bergepanzer-Tiger on
   the first flatcar walking down the line, we see another Tiger on the flatcar behind it.
   Look close, and you can see this Tiger has its outer roadwheels removed for transport.
   
   The soft skinned vehicle next to the Tiger is
   the Steyer 1500A/01 4x4 light truck.

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