Military Newsreels 1945 - Pathe U.S. Railroads Perform Huge Wartime Job Railroads airs war effort moving freight in wartime. Steam locomotive pulls long line of freight cars. Point of View (POV) of train Engineer looking down railroad tracks. Several views of freight train traveling through mountain region of America. Shadow scene of train crossing a railroad trestle. Excellent images of train engine puffing steam.

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. (Aug. 12, 2015) -- A transporter in the rather obscure corner of logistics called rail operations, Sgt. 1st Class Elrick Richburg literally has a boot on each side of progress. He has logged 17 years as a rail Soldier in the traditional sense but has spent the past two years helping to shape a future marked by dramatic change. 

That change, technically termed Army Rail Transformation, or ART, includes the consolidation of all three rail military occupational specialties and a shift from an operational mission to a strategic one. 

That doesn't bode well for a former infantryman and accustomed boots-on-the-ground, all-around railroader. https://www.army.mil/article/153773/army_railroaders_undergoing_dramatic_change

Our friend in Belgium,  Guy has been going through some of the Murphy 743rd ROB photos from 1941 and finding modern images of the locations in photos. (Beauvais) 

Thanks Guy!

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I inherited these photo albums from Mister Murphy when he was faced with moving from his home in 1996. He served under my Dad and thought quite a bit of him. These were unnumbered they are canned in no particular order.

743rd Murphy Part 6 by Nancy on Scribd

743rd Murphy Part 7 by Nancy on Scribd

I inherited these photo albums from Mister Murphy when he was faced with moving from his home in 1996. He served under my Dad and thought quite a bit of him. These were unnumbered they are canned in no particular order.

743rd Murphy Part 1 by Nancy on Scribd

743rd Murphy Part 2 by Nancy

743rd Murphy Part 3 by Nancy

 I inherited these photo albums from Mister Murphy when he was faced with moving from his home in 1996. He served under my Dad and thought quite a bit of him.

743rd Murphy Numbered 1-50 by Nancy on Scribd

743rd Murphy Numbered 51-100 by Nancy on Scribd

743rd Murphy Numbered 101-150 by Nancy on Scribd