Steel fortresses on rails—armored trains thundered across battlefields from the First World War to the Second, shaping revolutions, civil wars, and empires. In this case study episode, we explore their origins, battlefield use, and eventual decline, from Trotsky’s command train to German Panzerzüge. Once symbols of unstoppable industrial power, these iron leviathans ultimately became relics, remembered as war machines that rode the very rails of war.

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