Railroad soldiers at Fort Eustis learn century-old techniques adapted from circuses
April 18, 2021 Dave Ress - Daily Press
Rumbling up a ramp and onto the railroad flatcar, the Humvee wasn’t quite coming in straight. Spc. Joliyah Turner snapped first her right arm out and then her left to direct it.
Turner was one of more than two dozen soldiers from Fort Eustis’ 757th Expeditionary Rail Center drilling on techniques the Army learned more than a century ago, when it dispatched a couple of officers to follow a traveling circus to see how moved its hundreds of wagons on trains to close in one town and open the next day in another.
“It’s my first time,” she said, after getting the 8,000 pound truck lined up, on a spot just a yard from where she was standing. “It’s a bit nerve-wracking.”
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