Hello,
For a short story I'm writing, I would like some information about how passenger ticketing and transfers from line to line were handled for servicemen traveling on public trains, not troop carriers in 1944. Specifically, I imagine a serviceman who traveled from Murphy Army Hospital in Waltham MA all the way to Richmond VA. Historical atlas gives me a plausible route, and the likely use of various lines (B&M, B&A, New Haven,to NYC, etc. but I'm wondering if one would have bought a ticket at major transfer points from one line to another, or whether there was anything like a thru ticket in those days, or perhaps a travel voucher for servicemen taveling to and from assignments?
Thanks.
Burke Long
Professor of Religion and the Humanities Emeritus
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