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Military Railway Service Veterans and Friends:
 
On Wednesday July 25th at 4 PM The Army Transportation Corps Museum at Fort Eustis, VA, will host the dedication of RSD-1 ALCO locomotive #8011, one of 57 similar "iron camels" sent to Iran in WWII for service on the Military Railway Service Corps (MRS) operated Iranian State Railway, and the newly constructed Museum Rail Pavilion.  This event that is being dedicated to the honor and memory of all MRS Veterans in all theaters will be hosted by BG Stephen Farman, the Army Chief of Transportation, as part of the annual Transportation Corps (TC) Conference.  All events on the 25th are open to the public. In addition to MRS veterans, the invitation list includes individual rail industry carriers who sponsored and helped train MRS units, rail associations and labor organizations critical to the MRS formation and organization, and rail suppliers who provided the materials required to support operations.  

The museum, located just inside the Fort Eustis Boulevard Gate (I-64, Exit 250), will open at 9 AM and will remain open through evening festivities.  Starting at 5 PM following the dedication, all are invited to attend a TC B-B-Q picnic and social icebreaker on the museum grounds.  Tickets can be purchased on site for $20.  Self-guided tours of the museum will be available throughout the day. Plan to join the MRS Veterans, their family members, and friends to honor and celebrate the accomplishments of Army Railroaders from the Civil War to current operations in Afghanistan.

Mark Metz

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An American hospital train in Toul, France during World War I. Interiors of the train shows two African American cooks at work. They peep out of a train window and shake hands. A sign on the train reads 'US 5415'. US officers board the train. The train leaves. Location: Toul France. Date: 1918.

 

Video from a captured German World War II propaganda film showing their huge railway guns in action firing on positions along the Maginot Line in the Verdun area during their invasion of France. Shows crews loading and firing the guns and the shells landing

 

Soldiers of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps learn to operate and maintain all types of locomotives. The Transportation Corps was established in July 1942 by Executive Order 9082. The Transportation Corps is a combat service support branch of the U.S. Army, and was headquartered at Fort Eustis, Virginia, but moved to Fort Lee, Virginia in 2010. It is also one of three U.S. Army logistics branches, the others being the Quartermaster Corps and the Ordnance Corps. The Transportation Corps is responsible for the movement of personnel and material by truck, rail, air, and sea. Its motto is "Spearhead of Logistics," and it is currently the third smallest branch of the Army.