The National Infantry Museum at Fort Benning has a 2-ft gauge 2-6-2T steam locomotive on outdoor display. The little engine, No. 1902, built by the Davenport Locomotive Works of Davenport, Iowa, was one of twenty such locomotives used by the Army Quartermasters Corps to move supplies and soldiers around Fort Benning between 1921 and 1944.

Different sources give various figures for the length of the narrow-gauge line, generally ranging from 15 miles to 27 miles. Considering that an old film made on the fort shows dozens of soldiers quickly laying a section of track, it is likely that the total length varied over time as the rails were extended or taken up depending on the particular need. The number of locomotives and rail cars in use also changed from time to time.

Sometime in the 1940s, the locomotives were given the nickname "Chattahoochee Choo-Choo" for the river that runs along the west side of the fort and for the popular song "Chattanooga Choo-Choo."

The line was abandoned in 1944; the tracks were taken up in 1946.

Fort Benning is in western Georgia on the south side of Columbus.


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This is a hand- out from the exhibit Chicago Railroad Fair 1948

Us Army Transcorp Ex 1948 by on Scribd

 Other Chicago Railroad Fair 1948 links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Railroad_Fair 
• http://www.railarchive.net/rrfair/
• http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-120712-flashback-railroad-fair-pictures/
• http://www.kinglyheirs.com/AbandonedRR/ChicagoRailFair.html#.Vb96Z_lSI2Y 

 Walt Disney got ideas for Disneyland

• http://www.mouseplanet.com/10796/The_Importance_of_the_1948_Chicago_Railroad_Fair 

This training included officers for the 701st, 728th, 729th and 756th Railway Operating Battalions.

Atlantic Coast Transporatio... by Nancy

Atlantic Coast Transportation Corps Officer Training School Oct 43 by Nancy

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Ledbetter 754th RSB

2nd MilitaryRailwayServiceETO by Nancy on Scribd

You can see full color version here Thanks Jean !

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