FreightWaves Classics: Cross-Country Motor Transport Train reaches San Francisco

The U.S. Army Cross-Country Motor Transport Train. (Photo: U.S. Army)

On September 6, 1919, the U.S. Army’s Cross-Country Motor Transport Train arrived in San Francisco. Its journey spanned 62 days, and after leaving Washington, D.C. on July 7, the Motor Transport Train traveled 3,251 miles. 

On July 7, 1919, at the temporary Zero Milestone marker on the Ellipse south of the White House, dignitaries gathered to launch the first ocean-to-ocean Truck Train Convoy. (Photo: Dwight Eisenhower Library)On July 7, 1919, at the temporary Zero Milestone marker on the Ellipse south of the White House, dignitaries gathered to launch the first ocean-to-ocean Truck Train Convoy.
(Photo: Dwight Eisenhower Library)

Col. Charles W. McClure, the convoy’s commander, formally confirmed...

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