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Tango01 | 17 Jun 2020 12:56 p.m. PST |
"The advent of locomotives and the spread of railways symbolized the Industrial Revolution, delivering the outputs of factories and cities to distant markets and battlefields. Napoleon and the French Revolution introduced the concept of mobilizing entire nations for war; the American Civil War demonstrated what massing of forces could achieve, when thousands of men arrived by rail at the front in days, not weeks. Increased activity on the western Russian railroads were the trigger for imperial Germany's mobilization in the run-up to war in 1914. It's easy to see why such a symbolic and useful machine would end up drafted into combat, although the very notion of a fighting train seems to come more from the steampunk universe than a practical real-life military organization. Trains are restricted to their fixed and vulnerable rails and are among the first targets for artillery, airstrikes and sabotage…"
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