Military equipment passes through on railcars

Mike Eckels/Special to the Eagle Observer
An M-998 HMMWV (Humvee), trailer and medium tactical vehicle moves through Decatur onboard a northbound Kansas City Southern military transport cargo train on March 13. The nearly 100-flatcar convoy was moving an entire Army company to an unknown location.
Mike Eckels/Special to the Eagle Observer An M-998 HMMWV (Humvee), trailer and medium tactical vehicle moves through Decatur onboard a northbound Kansas City Southern military transport cargo train on March 13. The nearly 100-flatcar convoy was moving an entire Army company to an unknown location.

A long trainload of military vehicles passed through Decatur on railcars on March 13.

photo Mike Eckels/Special to the Eagle Observer Loaded on several flatcars, an M977 HEMTT (heavy expanded mobility tactical truck) leads a long line of different military vehicles which was part of a northbound Kansas City Southern Army cargo train which passed through Decatur on March 13.