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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.

Whenever we get compliments on this blog, I always say this blog is great because of the families of the vets that have donated and remembered the service of their family members who served.

They saved the items, scanned and photographed them and made sure they got to me so that their dad or granddad's service could be remembered and the work their unit did was also acknowledge and honored.

If you have a military railroader in your family and you have some old photos or documents somewhere ..please get them out and get them scanned and get them to me. This is how we are collecting and remembering their service and we need to know about your vet too!

If you do not have access to scanners - you can mail me things and I will scan them them and immediately return them to you, unharmed. If you have things you'd just like to donate - you can do that too.

Just email me and I will be happy to help !
Thanks Nancy cunningb2@gmail.com

Jonathan grandson to GH Myren writes...

Nancy, I would like to find information on my Grandfathers unit The 766 RY Shop BN TC. Not sure what the RY stands for? Maybe rail way,rail yard??
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
SSG, Myren,Jonathan US Army

If anyone has more info on the 766th I sure need it on the blog. please contact me !

Jonathan sends his granddad's headstone :