American Red Cross - Miscellaneous - Siberia, Russia. Thousands of persons in Siberia owe their lives to the treatment provided by this train --- the American Red Cross Anti-typhus train. With a personnel of Red Cross doctors, nurses and attendants, its cars stocked with medical supplies of every sort, "The Great White Train," as it is now known throughout Siberia, has travelled back and forth across more than 4,000 miles caring for stricken soldiers and civilans and instructing communities along sanitary lines