Nijajjuiy88 t1_iylfx4d wrote
Reply to comment by Favicool in TIL that the southern United States converted all 11,500+ miles of its railroads from broad gauge (5 ft/1.524 m) to nearly-standard gauge (4 ft 9 in/1.448 m) in just 36 hours, starting on May 31, 1886 by 1859
Apart from the scortched earth policy, they did however capture a lot of rolling stock early in the war.
But the soviet engines required different octane fuel (I am not recalling whether it was diesel or petrol) than German trains. Also the fact that German coal couldnt be used for soviet trains for some reason. That made it difficult to keep them running.
Railway stations were few and far, so the trains running in USSR had to carry a lot of fuel for the journey.
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