724th Railway Operating Battalion 1982 Roster Reunion by Nancy
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Hospital on wheels - Railroad Magazine 1945
Hospital Train Sept Railroa... by on Scribd
Great hospital train page here http://railwaysurgery.org/Army.htm
Monday, March 18, 2013
Army Transportation Corps - The Big Picture
National Archives and Records Administration
ARC Identifier 2569474 / Local Identifier 111-TV-204
Big Picture: Army Transportation Corps
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy
Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 -
05/15/1984). We follow the supplies from the factory to the depot in
the U.S., to the port to the front line unit in Korea. We show the Port
of Embarkation, small boats, the ducks, the rail lines, the trucks. And
we show a new development of the TC... the helicopter transportation
company in training.
Camp Clairborne Derailment : Subversive Warfare on the Claiborne Polk Military Railroad
This film records and explains a series of train crash tests for "subversive warfare" on the US Army Claiborne Polk Military Railroad between 03/08/1944 & 03/10/1944. Discusses amount of explosive used, technique of making "gaps" in railroad track to overturn train.
Uses filmographic techniques such as slow motion, reverse motion, and freeze frame to show effects of "gaps" and explosives on train and results of experiments. Illustrated arrows point to areas of train considered especially relevant to experiment. During each train crash experiment the narrator explains each type of explosive and reason for variations.
This film made available courtesy the Department of Defense, National Technical Information Service, and the National Archives and Records Administration http://www.archives.gov/
Friday, March 8, 2013
USA Locomotive Postcard
WARREN & SALINE RIVER Railroad 2-8-0 WSR #1702 ex- US Army FEVR
POST CARD CAPTION: WARREN & SALINE RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY NUMBER 1702.
Warren & Saline River Railroad Company's Number 1702 (2-8-0) was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the United States Army in 1942 and sold to the Warren & Saline River Railroad in 1946. Number 1702 later saw service on the Reader Railroad and is currently working on the Fremont & Elkhorn Valley Railroad.
713th Railway Operating Battalion: A Railroad to Rome: Company “A”, 713th Railway Operating Battalion (Santa Fe) in Italy, 1943-1944.By James T. McGhee
Todd shared his very interesting paper on the 713th and an unbelievable collection of photos !
This is part 1 and 2 of Todd's 713th photos
Pasqual from France has identified some locations and equipment from the photos
#8 & 9 : Orléansville, now : Chlef. This station has always been rather busy, as in steam locomotive times, all passenger trains running between Oran and Algiers had to change locomotive here. Locomotive 4-A class built in the 1870s and 1880s for the Paris – Lyon – Méditerranée French company, later transfered to the Algerian PLM network.
#12 : Orléansville ? Diesel shunter supplied for wartime by British army.
#13 : Orléansville ? Same steam locomotive class as # 8 & 9.
#20 : Berliet diesel truck, fitted with “gazogène” (used during wartime in France, because of oil shortage).
#21 : Valmy, now : El Kerma. Just outside of Oran city.
#23 : Garratt steam locomotive, 231-132-BT class, #12, built 1936. Huge engines for European and Nth African loading gauge : length 29,43 metres, 216 metric tons. #25 : Garratt steam locomotive, 231-132-BT class (same unit as #23 ?)
#28 : Western Tunisia or Eastern Algeria, near Tebessa : meter gauge locomotive, class 150-851 to 865, built 1930.
#30 : Western Tunisia or Eastern Algeria, near Tebessa : meter gauge locomotive, class 2.2-251 to 258 or 451 to 482 (I can’t read unit # on the cab), built between 1895 and 1906.
#31, 37, 39 : Same class 150-8xx as #28.
#34 : Same class 2.2-xxx as #30. #28 to 36 seem to be in the same location, but where ? The station is rather extensive for a meter gauge network.
#37 & 39 : Same class 150-8xx as #28.
Part 2
713th Santa Fe Mcghee by Nancy
This is part 1 and 2 of Todd's 713th photos
Pasqual from France has identified some locations and equipment from the photos
#8 & 9 : Orléansville, now : Chlef. This station has always been rather busy, as in steam locomotive times, all passenger trains running between Oran and Algiers had to change locomotive here. Locomotive 4-A class built in the 1870s and 1880s for the Paris – Lyon – Méditerranée French company, later transfered to the Algerian PLM network.
#12 : Orléansville ? Diesel shunter supplied for wartime by British army.
#13 : Orléansville ? Same steam locomotive class as # 8 & 9.
#20 : Berliet diesel truck, fitted with “gazogène” (used during wartime in France, because of oil shortage).
#21 : Valmy, now : El Kerma. Just outside of Oran city.
#23 : Garratt steam locomotive, 231-132-BT class, #12, built 1936. Huge engines for European and Nth African loading gauge : length 29,43 metres, 216 metric tons. #25 : Garratt steam locomotive, 231-132-BT class (same unit as #23 ?)
#28 : Western Tunisia or Eastern Algeria, near Tebessa : meter gauge locomotive, class 150-851 to 865, built 1930.
#30 : Western Tunisia or Eastern Algeria, near Tebessa : meter gauge locomotive, class 2.2-251 to 258 or 451 to 482 (I can’t read unit # on the cab), built between 1895 and 1906.
#31, 37, 39 : Same class 150-8xx as #28.
#34 : Same class 2.2-xxx as #30. #28 to 36 seem to be in the same location, but where ? The station is rather extensive for a meter gauge network.
#37 & 39 : Same class 150-8xx as #28.
Part 2
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
715th Railway Operating Battalion--Simpson
Christy , daughter of Raymond D Simpson of Company A of the 715th Railway Operating Battalion sent these great photos.
She says "Dad served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He was on a ship heading towards Japan when the atomic bombs were dropped. When Japan surrendered, the ship was turned around and headed towards the US. I have attached some of pictures of Dad which were taken in Italy. I do not know the names of the other soldiers in the pictures. The back of the picture of the Tower of Pisa says he is in the top of the tower."
She says "Dad served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He was on a ship heading towards Japan when the atomic bombs were dropped. When Japan surrendered, the ship was turned around and headed towards the US. I have attached some of pictures of Dad which were taken in Italy. I do not know the names of the other soldiers in the pictures. The back of the picture of the Tower of Pisa says he is in the top of the tower."
759th Railway Operating Battalion Harry Stairs photos
Cathe, daughter of Harry North Stairs or “Boots”shared these great photos. If anyone knows any of the people in
these photos she'd like to know - email me if you know any of Stair's buddies .
