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?
"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.