Donate to this blog and share your military railroader's story!

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

766th Railway Shop Battalion George Henry Myren

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 :

NEW Army Genset Locomotive, USAX 6510 locomotive

James sent this video...
check it out aT 0:22 SEC

737th Railway Battalion and Walter S. Fleming

I have very little on the 737th - does anyone know more about this unit ?

Scott writes ...

My father served in the army in WW2, as a medic, stationed in the Philippines. He died in 1970 when I was very young, and we don't know much about his military service. I requested his records from the government and was told a fire destroyed those records sometime in the early 1970's.

I did find a copy of his "Record of burial place of a veteran", and it lists his dates of service and organization. The dates of service were 3-15-44 through 4-14-46, and the organization is 737 RR Bn.

I cannot find any record of a 737th Railroad Battalion. Do you have any idea what 737 RR Bn would mean?
Scott Fleming: fleming4 [ at] gmail.com

US Army Hospital Rail car advertisement

WW2 - Hospital trains transporting wounded soldiers - World War Two Railroads [video]

US Military Railroads in Europe - World War One Trains [video]

Fort Benning, Georgia Railroads Narrow Gauge Quartermaster Corps [video]

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.

you can find out more about this here
http://railga.com/ondispl/fortbenloco.html