IIRC, most Army rolling stock was not built for use here in the states during the war but overseas to replace the rail systems we systematically destroyed in preparation for the invasion. Not at all long after D-Day, our ships were delivering locos, rolling stock, and brigades of RR men in uniform to set up and provide the logicistics we needed once off the beaches. The RRing in the states could be provided by the RRs: it was overseas that the Army had to provide its own.
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