Fort Slocum continued served as a recruit intake and specialist training center. It was the site of the Atlantic Coast Transportation Corps Officers' Training School from 1942 to 1944.
The school trained railroad men and other transportation specialists in the Army way of doing things before making them commissioned officers. A related program begun in 1943, the Provisional Training Center, provided basic training to other specialists and enlisted men.
A.C.T.C.O.T.S (Atlantic Coast Transportation Corps Officers' Training School) documents at Fort Slocum
German Reichsbahn Eagle 708th Railway Grand Division Carr
Again thanks to Wilhelm for these...
Presentation of a plaque with a German Reichsbahn-eagle and two affixed metal plates by Colonel W.S. Carr of the 708th Railway Grand Division to Brigade-General Clarance L. Burpee
(commander of the Second Military Railway Service), at the German city of Bremerhaven in August 1945.
In the back standing a person with the wooden box to put the eagle into!
One of the engines was named to the commander of the unit as “COL. CARR SPECIAL, 1001” with the unit-number 708 RGD.
Thanks : Wilhelm P.B.R. Saris (Netherlands); material 708th Railway Grand Division, courtesy Bill Shea from the Ruptured Duck, Hubbartston (USA).
German Reichsbahn Eagle captured by Capt. William McCormick of the 722nd Railway Operating Battalion Co. A
Another great Reichsbahn Eagle sent to us from Wilhelm ( who is researching for a book ) , this time the eagle is from Capt. William McCormick of the 722nd Railway Operating Battalion Co. A - this is how the eagle was sent to his wife.
Thanks Wilhelm and Kristian !!
Material provides thanks to :Wilhelm P.B.R. Saris, (Netherlands) and Kristian Anderson (USA).
German Reichsbahn Railway Eagle captured by 735th ROB Co. C
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735th Railway Operating Battalion Co. CSgt J.F. Deaton - Conductor
T/4 Frank Hacken - Eng.
T/5 F.J. Moschini - Frmn'
P.F.C. C.J. Sobrito - Flgmn
L to R: Pfc Charles ”Toughy” Sobrito (brakeman/flagman),
Sgt. Jim F. Deaton (conductor), T/4 Frank Hacker (engineer), and T/5 F.C.
“Fudge” Moschini (fireman). This picture was taken in the spring of 1945 in
Warburg, Germany. These are the same four men whose names were inscribed on the
back of the aluminum Nazi Reichsbahn Eagle
This Nazi rail car emblem commonly called a Reichsbahn Eagle came from car No 84054 was captured by these men.
The old Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRB) was set up in 1920, under a provision in the Weimar Constitution, to take over the seven individual state railways in Germany at that time. Its existence ended with the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War
http://www.worldrailfans.info/Articles/Europe/GDRGwagons.shtml
Thanks very much to Wilhem Saris of the Netherlands and Robert Newbrough for sharing this amazing artifact with the blog.
If you know anything more about this or the men listed here please email me , Nancy cunningb2@gmail.com
Wilhelm Saris, eagle courtesy Robert Newbrough of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania size: 62.9 cm wingspan and 34.3 cm height. (Aluminium-Präzisionsguss A.G. at Nowawes inGermany).
Hospital on wheels - Railroad Magazine 1945
Hospital Train Sept Railroa... by on Scribd
Great hospital train page here http://railwaysurgery.org/Army.htm
Army Transportation Corps - The Big Picture
National Archives and Records Administration
ARC Identifier 2569474 / Local Identifier 111-TV-204
Big Picture: Army Transportation Corps
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy
Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 -
05/15/1984). We follow the supplies from the factory to the depot in
the U.S., to the port to the front line unit in Korea. We show the Port
of Embarkation, small boats, the ducks, the rail lines, the trucks. And
we show a new development of the TC... the helicopter transportation
company in training.
Camp Clairborne Derailment : Subversive Warfare on the Claiborne Polk Military Railroad
This film records and explains a series of train crash tests for "subversive warfare" on the US Army Claiborne Polk Military Railroad between 03/08/1944 & 03/10/1944. Discusses amount of explosive used, technique of making "gaps" in railroad track to overturn train.
Uses filmographic techniques such as slow motion, reverse motion, and freeze frame to show effects of "gaps" and explosives on train and results of experiments. Illustrated arrows point to areas of train considered especially relevant to experiment. During each train crash experiment the narrator explains each type of explosive and reason for variations.
This film made available courtesy the Department of Defense, National Technical Information Service, and the National Archives and Records Administration http://www.archives.gov/
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