Chapter 769 - 16. In the Name of God (Part 8)_2

In such circumstances, the Duchy was not able to develop a comprehensive, detailed, long-term transportation plan. They heavily depended on guesswork and spontaneous decisions. They overestimated the number of trains traveling during wartime and almost halted the transportation on every commercial railway line they had. They assembled military trains with only 50 carriages when civilian cargo trains routinely had 100 carriages per train. During transport, all trains were ordered to maintain uniform speed based on the slowest train's speed for consistency's sake. On top of that, many soldiers had stolen and consumed large quantities of antifreeze which resulted in a lack of maintenance for the trains; thus, the Duchy's military trains moved slower than bicycles.