The Victory Home: 
Transportation--Trains

Poster: Help Bring Them Back to You! Make Yours a Victory Home!
Trains were needed to transport troops and government workers. Since civilians could no longer drive long distances due to gas rationing, the trains were quite crowded. As with the buses, civilians were urged to stay home if possible.
 
 
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Photos

These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 .  Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Chicago, Illinois. Union Station train concourse.
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Chicago, Illinois. Waiting for trains at the Union Station.
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Chicago, Illinois. Soldier checking train reservation at the Union Station.

Chicago, Illinois. Soldiers waiting for trains at the Union Station.

Chicago, Illinois. Soldiers saying goodbye at the train concourse of the Union Station.
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Chicago, Illinois. Train master giving advice to a young officer at the Union Station.

Chicago, Illinois. Sailors waiting for train in the main waiting room of the Union Station.

Chicago, Illinois. Passengers waiting to board a train at Union Station.

Chicago, Illinois. Passengers getting ready to board a Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul, and Pacific Railroad train at the Union Station for the west coast.

Chicago, Illinois. Passengers boarding a train at Union Station.

Long Island Railroad passenger coach manned by the first women trainmen on this line, who started work the day after an intensive training period. Mrs. Florence L. Lawyer (foreground) collecting tickets, while Miss Marcella Craft (background) gives information from her timetable to a passenger.

These four photographs were taken at the railroad station when a noon train came in. All trains coming into San Diego are crowded and are an indication of the hordes of people pouring into the city. California.
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This photo is in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

Boarding the train to begin service in the Army.
 

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Posters

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection.   Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Millions of troops

Needless travel

Help my boy get home

Could this be you

Soldiers of supply
 

These posters are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

Look Dad - my train hauls tanks and soldiers too!

War Traffic Must Come First. Don't Waste Transportation.

"Don't Waste Transportation"
 

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Pamphlets

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This pamphlet is in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

If your baby must travel in wartime
 

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Video

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Troop Train
 

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Ads

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