Word: detrained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roads will need more than 2,200 extra coaches (total U.S. supply: 37,000), plus 1,000 Pullman tourist sleepers which, minus porters and bedding, will be used as coaches. The Pennsylvania alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station. Longest haul: a three-train caravan from California's Fort Ord via Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond...