Eastern Railroad Discussion > Looking for info on current Army Railroad units

I have been looking around and all I can find is the 1205th and the 226th US Army Reserve Railway Operating Battalions. I have looked at some other US Army National Guard sites and they list having the 88U MOS (Railway Crewmember) jobs in their state, such as Montana, Kansas, Utah ect... Supposedly there are 181 or so DoD Military Locomotives in service right now. I would like to know what other US Army units there are out in the USA.
Thanks

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Thats 1 way to prevent "tagging".

Rich Dunklee
NR2D

They got life vests on?

That's camouflage so they blend in with the unit...

The 1205th was deactivated in the last round of base/unit closings in 2006. Both locos,USA 4601&4602, were seen white lined, without number boards in the Pioneer Valley yard , Westfield MA this spring and disappeared around a month ago.

Soldiers are getting out of the base-ops business. Most - if not all - Army railroad equipment is run by Army Civilian employees or contractors.

Steve

The 1205th Transportation Railway Operating Battalion was a small unit
(approximately 50 personnel) based in Middletown, CT, that was inactivated
in September 2006. It trained at a variety of sites in the Northeast and
performed its annual training at Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point
(MOTSU), Southport, NC, augmenting the civilian employees in rail
operations and track maintenance. It was organized only for base railway
support and not overseas deployment. It was inactivated as the Army
Reserve reduced in size and focused its resources on deployable units.

The 226th Transportation Company (Railway) at Westover Air Reserve Base in
Chicopee, MA, was attached to the 1205th for administrative purposes but
has a different organization and mission. Unlike the 1205th, it is an
overseas-deploying unit and is equipped as such. Upon mobilization, it
would fall under the HQ 757th Transportation Battalion (Railway), 2372
South Logan Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53207, a deployable unit.

The 757th’s subordinate 1150th Transportation Company (Railway) is located
at 3155 Blackhawk Drive, Suite 147, Fort Sheridan, IL 60037-1289.

The 1152nd Transportation Company (Railway) is co-located with HQ 757th
Trans Bn in Milwaukee and its Detachment 1 is located at 2101 South 8th
Street, Fort McCoy, WI 54656.

The 1151st Transportation Company (Railway) was located at the Melvin Price
Support Center in Granite City, IL, across the river from Saint Louis, MO,
as a subordinate unit of the 757th Trans Bn. Last year the colors of the
1151st were moved to MOTSU, where the 1355th Transportation Railway
Operating Company was reorganized and reflagged. (The 1355th was formerly
Det 1, 1205th TROB and later Section C, 1205th TROB before becoming a
separate base railway support unit.) It is not clear if rail reservists
remain at MPSC as a detachment of the 1150th or 1152nd or if they are gone
entirely.

The “new” 1151st Trans Co at MOTSU maintains a detachment at Blue Grass
Army Depot, KY, which has existed for a number of years. While currently
under a regional command, upon mobilization the 1151st would fall under the
757th Trans Bn.

Garrison Support Units are Army Reserve outfits that augment bases with
various support personnel when post units deploy. Two of these GSUs have a
small number of rail personnel:

2174th GSU
1915 Boulevard
Roanoke, VA 24011
540-982-1409/1513
(includes a detachment at Fort Eustis, the post it supports)

4003rd GSU
Bldg 4442, Service Drive
Fort Hood, TX 75644-5084
877-212-3830 toll free
(based in Norman, OK, but supports Fort Hood)

This website provides a good listing of where each service has operating
locomotives: http://military.railfan.net/

The Army National Guard does not now, nor has it ever had, railway units.
The focus of the ARNG is on combat units. Rail operations personnel at
bases, to include the Camp Navajo National Guard Training Site in Arizona,
are invariably civilians.

The Army Reserve plans to man its units with personnel who work in the same
career fields in their civilian jobs. That means construction workers
would be in engineer battalions, truck drivers in transportation (truck)
units, etc. This will allow weekend and annual training to focus on combat
skills, convoy operations, etc. Anyone considering joining should realize
up front that there will be little rail training and that reassignment to
an empty position in a mobilizing non-rail company (should you possess the
required skills) is a very real possibility. For example, early in the
Iraq war, all of the vehicle drivers in the 226th Trans Co were reassigned
to empty slots in deploying units. Before it was inactivated, some members
of the 1205th were also individually mobilized and assigned to deploying
units because they possessed secondary MOSs required in those units.