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A packed train speeds on its way south, ready to replenish the Union Army with fresh troops and supplies.
一列火車滿載著飛馳南下給聯邦軍隊帶去生力軍和給養。
Lieutenant George Benedict writes home. We were stowed away in freight cars and started out of the city.
喬治·班尼迪克中尉在家書中寫道，我們被塞進運貨車廂駛出這座城市。
The train took 600 other troops besides our regiment, and numbered 34 heavily loaded cars.
車上除了我們團以外還載有名600軍人，以及34節裝得滿滿的車廂。
The railroad, one of Lincoln's hidden weapons in this war. In one key operation ordered directly by the President 25,000 fresh troops were sent on a 1200-mile journey to the South.
鐵路是此戰中林肯的秘密武器之一，這是總統直接下令進行的調度，25000名新兵被送往英里以外的南方。
By road it would take over two m onths. By rail, it will take these men just seven days.
如果從公路走需要兩個多月，而通過鐵路只需天便可到達。
Following its introduction in the 1830's, America's rail infrastructure has gradually spread its tentacles across the country.
自從世紀年代開建以來，美國的鐵路設施漸漸將觸角延伸到了全國的每個角落。
Lincoln realizes it can revolutionize the speed of troop deployments. He strikes a deal with the rail owners to put the North railroad network under government control. It turns the railroad into a weapon of war.
林肯意識到這將徹底改變軍隊調度效率，他和鐵路擁有者們達成協議，將北方鐵路網納入政府管轄，這使鐵路也成為了一種戰爭武器。
Instead of armies being limited to the speed at which they can march, all of a sudden, you had armies being able to move to up to the front by rail. And more importantly, supplies.
軍隊不再像以前那樣被行軍速度所限。突然之間你可以通過鐵路把軍隊輸送到前線，而更重要的是后勤供給
Supplies and troops pour out of the North toward the battle front. Some busy lines carry 800 tons of supplies a day, the equivalent of 80 railroad cars.
給養和部隊通過鐵路從北方源源不斷地輸往前線，有些繁忙的路線每天要運輸800噸給養，相當于80節車廂的貨運量。
In Lincoln's hands, the 24,000 miles of railroad tracks in the North becomes an arm of his war machine. But the South has a far smaller network.
林肯手中掌控的北方24000英里的鐵路線成了他戰爭武器的殺手锏，但南方所擁有的鐵路網則小得多。
Just 9,000 miles at the start of the war and it remains under private control.
戰爭初期只有9000英里，并且一直為私人所有。
In the four years the war lasts, the North adds 4,000 miles of new tra ck to it's network against just 400 miles in the South.
戰爭持續的四年中，北方新修了4000英里鐵路線，而南方只新修了400英里。
This inability to coordinate rail supplies will prove disastrous for the South. Even though they're just 30 miles from their capital in Richmond.
鐵路物資供給協調不力，給南方帶來了毀滅性的打擊。盡管他們離首都里士滿只有30英里，
In the winter of 1863, poor rail links mean Southern troops in Virginia starve.
1863年冬落后的鐵路運輸卻使弗吉尼亞州的南方軍隊陷入饑荒。
