"The Russian Railway Service Corp in Japan and Siberia" Topic

The Russian Railway Service Corp
in Japan and Siberia
"It was November 11th, 1917. The army transport Thomas with the dignity becoming to a veteran of numberless crossings of the wide Pacific, backed silently away from the wharf and turned her prow towards the Golden Gate, and beyond that, 2100 miles to Honolulu. It took just a week to reach Honolulu, a week of golden sunny days, soft caressing winds, and beautiful star filled nights. Then all of a sudden, there was Hawaii straight ahead of us, and we landlubbers marveled that in that infinite expanse of water we could find a small island, first try.

Some of us had come from the cold snow covered reaches of land along the Canadian border, and I for one, said to myself as I sat out on the deck luxuriating in the soft warm breeze and sunshine, the boat rolling ever so little in gentle swells, "How long has this been going on?" Strange how habit and environment does make prisoners of us. To be sure one has to consider economic necessities too. One wonders how come the Eskimos ever went so far north, and why they stayed there after they found out what a cold bleak place it is up there.

I enjoyed standing as forward in the bow as I could, watching the flying fish as they leaped out of the water and skimmed along just above the waves ahead of the boat. . ."

by 2nd Ltd William C Jones of the Russian Railway Service Corps.
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I just browsed for what I thought was a few minutes and a half hour passed buy.Great insight to the period and people . It is a lot of info and will give me plenty of gaming ideas. I always like learnign as much of a theater as i can,keep up the good work.

Thanks. Glad that it you found it interesting. Robert