Troop sleeper/Gallery
© Photo: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
A Pullman porter assists soldiers returning from the South Pacific aboard an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway troop train.© Image: New York Central System
"What life is like on a troop train..." a print advertisement published by the New York Central System in support of the War Bond drive.(PD) Photo: United States Army Signal Corps
Colonel T. M. Lowry, Port Surgeon, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, standing beside "Medical Department Hospital Ward Car" USA 8906 on Pier 5, Newport News, Virginia, May 29, 1943. The car is standing by awaiting debarkation of 204 wounded American soldiers from Tunisia.(CC) Photo: J.S. Sand / TrainWeb.com
Railway Express Agency refrigerator car #6687, a converted World War II troop sleeper. Note the square panels along the sides that cover the former window openings.