"a German railway pioneer battahon could replace wide-gauge line with normal at 20 km per day. " from an actual real article discussing this. Also there are mentions of how the soviets often destroyed infrastructure when retreating which slowed down efforts like this, so it certainly was a contributing factor.
["a German railway pioneer battahon could replace wide-gauge line with normal at 20 km per day. "](http://militera.lib.ru/h/stolfi/11.html) from an actual real article discussing this. Also there are mentions of how the soviets often destroyed infrastructure when retreating which slowed down efforts like this, so it certainly was a contributing factor.
Aye, I forgot that. They took a scorched earth approach. Man, that was like one of the biggest talking points about that way back in school.
Aye, I forgot that. They took a scorched earth approach. Man, that was like one of the biggest talking points about that way back in school.
Just pull a few spikes and move the rails out of place. Do that once every few miles. Whole system completely useless. So easy and obvious. Who imagines this being something critical or significant?
Just pull a few spikes and move the rails out of place. Do that once every few miles. Whole system completely useless. So easy and obvious. Who imagines this being something critical or significant?
Is this guy seriously saying that the Germans tried to bring their own trains and place them on the tracks instead of using or repairing and using existing Russian trains? That they couldn't rig something together quickly? Seriously??