Khyber - - Railway

This is coolbert:

From a prior blog entry:

"the Main Supply Route [MSR] for NATO and American forces in Afghan starts at the port of Karachi, travels north through the Khyber Pass by either road or narrow-gauge railway [?], the terminus being Kabul. "

Here, thanks to the astute and knowledgeable reader to the blog, Andrew, we have the final intel dope on the Khyber Pass railway:

"Along with most of the railways in Pakistan and India, the Khyber Pass railway is 5'6" broad gauge, rather than narrow gauge. It stops before the Afghan border, and is unlikely to be of much military significance these days."

That means the bulk if not all of the war munitions, beans and bullets and essential items such as Coca-Cola must be trucked through the pass, sinuous as the route is, all the while under the unblinking gaze of the villainous and treacherous tribesmen, licking their chops and grinning, caressing their British SMLE rifle [I think AK by modern standards]!!

NOT a pretty sight.

I stand corrected and gladly so. Thank you Andrew.

coolbert.