The book is dedicated to the close cooperation of the soldiers of the Red Army and Soviet railway workers during the Great Patriotic War. It is told about the construction of armored trains at front-line railway junctions, in the workshops of the factories of the People's Commissariat of Railways. Numerous examples of the courage and heroism of volunteer railway workers who fought on armored trains during the defense of Leningrad, Odessa, Kyiv, Sevastopol, in the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, during the liberation of Eastern Europe are given.