Original Caption: 13 APRIL 1955 CAPT WILLIAM M GRIFFIN, (CHICAGO, ILL), LOCOMOTIVE SUPERINTENDENT, EQUIPMENT DIV, 3RD TRANSPORTATION RAILWAY COMMAND, 3RD MILITARY RAILWAY SERVICE, IN KOREA. PHOTO BY PVT FURLONG

Thanks to Gary for these great items once belonging to John Means

 3rd MRS Red Ball newsletter  

Captured Nazi arm bandPaper work needed to bring home captured equipment

Iranian State Railway Timetable October 1944

National Defense Transportation Journal , MAY-JUNE, 1951, Vol. 7, No. 3 (MAYJUNE, 1951), pp. 31-34

 A Railroader in World War II: Gerald Harbaugh and the 3rd Military Railway Service

 (The Virginians at War Series)  April 6, 2017 by Col Greg Eanes (Author)

Gerald Harbaugh was railroad mechanic from the railroad town of Crewe, Va. When World War II erupted, he volunteered for the U.S. Army only to discover the Army needed experienced railroad men to move Lend Lease supplies across Iran to Russia then desperately fighting Nazi Germany. 

Harbaugh was assigned to Company A, 754th Railway Shop Battalion, 3rd Military Railway Service of the Persian Gulf Command. 

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3rd TMRS Sintanni Line, October 1952. I took this photo of a GM-EMD SW8 Diesel Locomotive #2034 powered supply train operated by the 712th TROB taking supplies to the front lines during the Battle of White Horse Mountain shortly after departing Taekwangni on my return to Seoul. 

I was on the troop train on the siding on the right side of the photo. According to Dave Kaufman, #2034 was the last SW8 on the Army roster. It was retired two years ago from Fort Sill, OK, and is now at the Oklahoma Railway Museum in Oklahoma City. tony2076, Art Reid and Dewey McLean comments on this post 

Also Dewey's photo of 3rd TMRS gate

3rd TMRS , 713th, 734th ROB, Luzan Pass, 770th ROB

Les was a friend and great inspiration for this blog. RIP 

This is my favorite photo of Les at the ripe old age of 19 

Lester Anthony Jacoby May 7, 1928 - October 27, 2020 Columbia, South Carolina - Les Jacoby, 92, beloved father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, and the last combat steam and diesel locomotive railroad engineer in the world, died on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 in Columbia, South Carolina. He was born in Wabasha, Minnesota, the oldest of 11 children born to Nicholas and Marcella (Kennebeck) Jacoby, and lived on the family farm in southern Minnesota, with no running water or electricity, until he entered the U.S. Army in 1946. He proudly served his country first during WWII as an advisor to the Korean National Railroad, then with the 790th Transportation Railway Operating Battalion, where at the age of 19 he became the engineer of the last USATC S160 steam locomotive to be used in conflict. He operated the Gen. Pershing #101 in combat until he returned to the US at the end of his tour. The Gen. Pershing 101 is now a permanent exhibit at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI. read online here

Lester Anthony Jacoby obit by Nancy on Scribd

772nd Military Rail Police - Korea 3rd TMRS, Korea during 53-54.

772 Military Rail Police Korea by Nancy on Scribd

Wheels Rolling in Korea The Signalman's Journal March 1953 by Nancy on Scribd

711th Railway Operating Battalion Iran article

3rd Military Railway Service (702nd Military Grand Division) 711th Railway Operating Battalion, 730th Railway Operating Battalion, 754th Railway Shop Battalion, 762th Railway Shop Battalion, 791st Railway Operating Battalion

Album from World War II.

Photos documenting the 3rd Military Railway Service, Persian Gulf Command, US Army. (showing Frank L. Hoppe of Havre, MT and his service in Persia).  Many small snap shot photos of buildings, monuments, bazaars, native Iranians.  Of note, photo of the King and Queen of Persian (Shaw) and FDR, Churchill and Stalin photos (probably taken at Malta; Most of the photos are identified on reverse..

Also contains one letter home to his mother, Large fold out map of the world (1940s era, good condition), military theme cartoons clipped from magazines and newspapers, Program from "This is the Army"... Irving Berlin's All-Soldier Musical Review, newspaper clippings about how "Iron Horses" kept in condition by shopmen of the Railroad Battalions.

Ration Card belonging to Frank, Co. B, 730th., photo copies of V-mail sent home for Xmas, New Year. Photos of Palaces and hotels, at Isphahan and Parband, Holy Temple at Gahm, Gold Temple at Gham

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