A little more from Andy about his dad, Sergeant Henry Espinosa. His Dad's "War chest" is picture below and a photo after liberation.

He writes ..

Here’s an excerpt from a letter about his baseball playing to my grandmother, the letters all written in Spanish had to be translated. 

Aug 6th, 1945 Brussel Belgium …

Mom, right now I’m in the capital Brussels and I’ve been here for 2 days. We came to play ball. Possibly today at 2pm I will leave to go to Charleroi. All of our games went very well - we didn’t lose a single game - we played 7 games and won them all. The colonel brought us a pallet of beer as thanks for having won all of the games"

 

 

744th abdill history by Nancy on Scribd

https://www.angelfire.com/va2/worldwar2family/744.html

 Great stuff shared by Andy about his dad

He writes "View the below reprint from the Military Railway Service Journal – Jan 1959; Paragraph 7, third line down. It seemed that after the war there were lots of GI’s waiting to come home and needed to be entertained. The European Battalions organized baseball teams and my dad was the 744th’s star pitcher and team captain (of course). See attached travel orders to play baseball. They actually went 7 wins, 0 losses, undefeated. As my dad described it to me, they were given a train travel-car, a sleeper-car and a kitchen-car and cook, and were pulled over Europe to play their games. Interestingly, I found out about my dad’s ability at baseball pitching, hitting...years later at our family picnics. All the other uncles were ok, but he seemed to be a cut above. He could pitch like a semipro and I always wondered why. Then he shared that he led his Battalion team and his European baseball story. "

 Some more great stuff from Richard Stone. Thanks

We don't know what ROB these photos are from. Take a look and email me if you know. I believe this is France and here's a great Railway Age article about MRS in France from December 1944.

Railway Age article "More about MRS in France" 1944

 Check out the web page dedicated to his service created by his grandson here : 

https://www.angelfire.com/va2/worldwar2family/raoul.html 

 

The website acts weird now - here is text and photos from the site

Thanks to Andrew and THE GREAT NORTHERN GOAT www.gnrhs.org for sharing their great article!

I had a question does anyone know this - please email me if you do: 

Hello, I have a question about the S160, do you know in which color the vehicles were delivered to Europe during World War II. 9 S160 machines were stationed in Luxembourg. The following machines were N ° in Luxemburg in 1908 Vulcan; 2560, 2574, 3279 Lima; 2101, 2422, 2457 Alco; 2265, 2341 Baldwin. In September 1946 all were transferred to Hungary. With best regards from Luxembourg-Weis André

 

 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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The Transportation Corps :movements, training, and supply / by Chester Wardlow.