The core problem though is really lack of any reasonable sleeper accommodation for single travelers. The rest sort of follows from that.
They're working on affordable sleepers for single travelers...
The gun rack is optional.
Nice find...wonder if the troops had to make their own beds?
Or perform "K.P." in the mess car?
There was provision for a porter in the troop sleepers, although knowing the Army his job may well have been limited to changing the beds from day to night configuration and supplying the troops with clean linen. However, I have heard reports that the soldiers themselves did staff the kitchen cars doing KP...and the standard Method Of Operation for feeding troops called for them to line up and pass through the car in one direction picking up plates and utensils...then to about face and actually pick up their food as they returned to their sleeping cars. So those who fought to get to the head of the line were actually the last to get fed....
The two scans below are from the 17th edition of the
Car Builder's Cyclopedia, published by Simmons-Boardman (publishers of
Railway Age), copyright 1946. Amazing what you can find on eBay....
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