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Photos & Videos Photo of the Day Troop train kitchen car

Troop train kitchen car

By Angela Cotey | September 20, 2018

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

The cook on a Korean War-era troop train out of Fort George G. Meade, Md., stokes the kitchen car’s coal stove as a soldier on KP duty looks on.
Philip R. Hastings photo

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