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Jeff and others:

The question is NOT where were the camps but HOW were they transported from
their main POW camps to near the railroad. That is the question. The many
camp locations are fairly well-known but my curiosity is, were they moved
from over near Camp Lee or Williamsburg or Petersburg or wherever the large
such POW camps were situated, how were they moved around the long distances
involved? rail passenger car/s in special trains?, trucks? or what? Of
course from the local camp close to where the crop-picking was done, they
were likely trucked those short distances, but were there specially
dedicated passenger trains/POW trains to move them en masse from the main
winter based camps to summer camp/work grounds.

There was lots of corn and wheat and hay to be harvested as well as oodles
of apples to be picked and heavy knows, the fringe benefits of fresh apples
to munch on couldn't be beat as well. Might have been better than POW meals.

That is the query here, be it N&W or Southern.

Thanks.

Bob
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