Troop Train R1 of 2

Troop Train R1 of 2 Office of War Information 07:16:09 Fields of trucks, motorcycles, tanks. Inside railroad control room, sign: Clear The Tracks For War Shipments. Lighted console of routes & switching. Sign on door; Transportation Corps Traffic Control Division. Int. w/ military men & secretaries at desk. Men on phone (SOF), talking about the train movements needed. 07:17:22 Sign on door: Chief of Staff Army Ground Forces. Meeting of officers. Col. Fitz talking on phone giving notice of moving ground unit by rail. Light tanks on road, train w/ flat cars & sentries guarding yard; tanks arrive & onto railroad cars. (GOOD) Half tracks arrive & loading onto two trains simultaneously. Motorcycles aboard, trucks tied down; men marching up road & band playing w/ barracks in background. 07:20:24 Engineer waves & freight train slowly pull out; men march aboard Pullman cars, band plays. Second freight train pulls out; sergeant says two sleeping in lower berth & one in upper; men rush to windows to look out. Cars passing. Men peeling potatoes, others lounging, cooking, eating, reading, smoking. 07:22:54 Train in station. Men doing callisthenics in field, shower under water tank. Passenger train runby, men playing on combs & wax paper. Views of making up bunks, climbing in; flipping coins for top berth. WWII Home Front; War Effort; Educational Film;