Kansas City Southern train passing through Baton Rouge

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Kansas City Southern train passing through Baton Rouge
Loaded down with 100+ military vehicles

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You know this isn't a rare occurrence, right?

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Is it happening baws?

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Yes. Trump has been the shadow POTUS this whole time. Its about to go public. Heads will roll.

WWG1WGA

If we had I-14 they could drive there.

Northbound or southbound?

Biden probably signed an EO mandating the scrapping of those brand new military vehicles.

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I've seen this particular engine pass nearly every morning/evening it comes through for the past year or two and never seen it carrying this cargo

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Could just be that the timing met up for you. They come across the Huey all the time during the middle of the night and on weekends.

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I've seen this particular engine pass nearly every morning/evening it comes through for the past year or two and never seen it carrying this cargo. So in this particular case, it is.

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I've seen it a few times in the past few years. It's not rare. It's how the military transports a large amount of equipment across the country.

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I've seen it a few times in the past few years. It's not rare. It's how the military transports a large amount of equipment across the country.

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There's no really better way to transport materiel over long distances. Some of the heavier stuff (motorized artillery, tanks, LAV's, anything with tracks, etc.) will destroy roads if you try to go over them. You can put them in a cargo plane, you can put them on a giant convoy of lowboys, or you can put the entire battalion's motorpool on a train. It's way cheaper and you don't have the added logistics of fueling all that equipment for the move, feeding, housing, and keeping tabs on the soldiers who would otherwise have to go get the equipment then drive the convoy to whatever base they need to get the materiel to, load and unload everything, and on and on. Then you might also possibly have to find a way to get all those soldiers back to their home base if they're not staying with the equipment at its final stop.

Railroads are the tits for moving massive amounts of heavy equipment cheaply and on time. It's kinda why the robber barons built them.

That and, you know, accumulation of astonishing wealth.

KCS hauls them to Fort Polk in Leesville.

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