Shorpy Home Front Photos: Riding the Rails and Kicking the Ball

JUNE 17, 2014  TROOP TRAIN: 1943--  March 1943--  "Grants, New Mexico.  Passing a troop train stopping for coal and water on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe between Belen and Gallup."  Jack Delano, OWI.  Moving troops coast-to-coast.

Jack Delano rode the rails a whole lot.

JUNE 12, 2014--  CROSSING GUARD: 1943--  March 1943--  Topock, Arizona (vicinity)  Military sentry at a bridge over the Colorado River along Santa Fe Railroad between Seligman, Arizona, and Needles, California.  Jack Delano, OWI

These above two photos are from the vicinity of Route 66.

JUNE 12, 2014--  THE P.E. CUP: 1943--  Oct. 1943.  Washington, D.C..  "Playing soccer at Woodrow Wilson High School.  Esther Bubley, OWI.  Keeping the kids healthy.

--GreGen