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USA 6004 is a GG20B assigned to Fort Bliss, TX. Last August I learned from a reliable Army Rail source that the Army has been less than enthralled with the performance of Rail Power's locomotives and they may not be on the roster too much longer.
There is only one railway battalion remaining in the Army, and it's a reserve unit with headquarters in Milwaukee, WI. It has two companies directly assigned (1150th and 1152nd) and two that would be gained upon mobilization (1151st and 226th). 757 th Transportation Battalion (Railway) Milwaukee USARC 4850 West Silver Spring Drive Milwaukee, WI 53218-3400 1150 th Transportation Company (Railway Operating) Phillip H. Sheridan USARC 3155 Blackhawk Drive Fort Sheridan, IL 60037-1289 Det 1 Granite
You can still see locomotives like this one at NWS Earle and elsewhere. They've been re-engined with EMD under the hood, but they largely retain their original appearances.
To clear up some possible misunderstandings from earlier posts: Member of the Transportation Corps rarely operate trains. Rail MOSs left the active Army in May 1976 and the last active Army rail unit, the 1st Railway Detachment at Fort Eustis, was inactivated on Sep 30, 1978. Since then only the Army Reserve has had rail MOSs, and you'll only see reservists operating rail equipment during weekend drills, annual training, school attendance at Fort Eustis, or the occasional TDY here and there.
Here are some answers to multiple questions. The locomotive at Camp Pendleton, CA, is GP9, not a GP20, and it came from the Army. It was originally an SP locomotive. The last locomotive at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, left in mid-2005 for the California State Railroad museum. Fort Campbell does not have its own fleet of flatcars. These are part of a pool used by DOD. The GE centercab at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, was an 80-ton, not 44-ton. The base rail system was abandoned and pulled up some years ago
Contrary to an earlier assertion, this US military does indeed still have military trains. Not troop trains of the WW II variety, but it has a large fleet of rail cars for interchange service and numerous bases with their own motive power and civilian crews. This is from a former military person who actually worked on military railway equipment.
The unit in NC is at Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU), NC, about 25 miles south of Wilmington and located near Southport. Its designation is the 1151st Transportation Company (Railway) and it's configured to be deployable for overseas service. It was previously designated as the 1355th Transportation Railway Operating Company and was organized solely for MOTSU support - a very different type of organization. Although some of its members are also full-time rail employees, they do not
Fort Monmouth was on the 2005 BRAC list to close. I was up there a few months ago and it was looking as dormant as ever. I'm not sure how much longer the doors will stay open. If you find a pre-WW II map of Fort Monmouth, you'll see an east-west commercial line that ran through the post. It went past the commissary warehouse, the post gym, and the present-day car wash facility before going out the west side of the post. I found ties still embedded in the ground near the car wash as well as
The 1205th TROB was inactivated in Sep 06 and its attached 226th Trans Co (Rwy) still exists as a separate unit. When mobilized, it would be assigned to the 757th Trans Bn (Rwy) headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.
Railway operations on Army posts are done by either Army employees (Wage Grade) or contractors, not DLA.
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