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Railroad Forum

Should we have a Railroad Forum?

  • Sure, I don't see why not, we have tanks and few own them.

    Votes: 54 84.4%

  • Nope, trains is dumb!

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Ferro is nuts

    Votes: 9 14.1%
  • Total voters
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juanprado

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Tracer said:
Army Railroad at Camp Claiborne - 1940's Military Trains - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage (youtube.com) Military Trains in WW2.
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The southern forest heritage museum close to Alexandria, LA highlights the history of Camp Claiborne and the training grounds for the WWII troops that trained to run the railroads on Europe.

Lots of WWII memorabilia and exhibits in the main museum and surrounding buildings. Also cool forestry, logging saw mill, and rail equipment of the era.

Cool place to visit if your travels on I-49 take you through South Alexandria.
 
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M813rc said:
Looks like an M52, perhaps. Almost certainly M39-series based. Pretty cool, never seen one of those before. [thumbzup]

Cheers

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yes you are correct it is a M52(a1 or a2) .. short wheelbase, 55g tank(s), and the trailer air hose/elec rack can be seen alongside the tell-tale vertical pioneer rack ...

never seen one myself, would be interesting to know whether this was a specific TAACOM build, or a shop mod .. I wonder what's in the weight box .. Cement? Lead? ilmenite? Gold? :LOL:
 
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msgjd said:
yes you are correct it is a M52(a1 or a2) .. short wheelbase, 55g tank(s), and the trailer air hose/elec rack can be seen alongside the tell-tale vertical pioneer rack ...

never seen one myself, would be interesting to know whether this was a specific TAACOM build, or a shop mod .. I wonder what's in the weight box .. Cement? Lead? ilmenite? Gold? :LOL:
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msgjd, several years ago, one of our members posted some pictures of these converted M52 rail trucks taken in South Korea when he was stationed there.
 
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back when i enlisted i chose army railroading, since it was the 1970's , northeastern roads were in decline and I couldn't hire on anywhere .. There were 3 generations of railroaders in the family and i wanted to be next.. I was thinking at the worst case the army would send me to west germany , but the recruiter tells me "I don't think the army has those anymore, Vietnam beat us up and we're short of truckers , that's the job the army is going to place you based on your current occupational experience"... So like a dummy i believed him until a certain day in Basic we marched to the supply depot and right then and there rolled in a big black Alco lettered "US Army Transportation Corps" trailing several box cars . Oh was i ever mad .. Although I like my old trucks, it still burns me up today to see the army still soliciting for the RR-related MOS's , and my feeling cheated out of my first love

Here's a nice modern-day video courtesy of Army Transportation Museum, Ft Eustis VA .. The same EMD-models in the video were present at FLW, Mo @2010 (and the old Alco's long-gone) when I went to pick up a truck and visit my old stomping grounds. ..

With any luck I will be in Norfolk in a week visiting my youngest boy, career army , and visit "Fort Useless" (y)

 
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msgjd said:
back when i enlisted i chose army railroading, since it was the 1970's , northeastern roads were in decline and I couldn't hire on anywhere .. I was thinking at the worst case the army would send me to west germany , but the recruiter tells me "I don't think the army has those anymore, Vietnam beat us up and we're short of truckers , that's the job the army is going to place you based on your current occupational experience"... So like a dummy i believed him until a certain day in Basic we marched to the supply depot and right then and there rolled in a big black Alco lettered "US Army Transportation Corps" trailing several box cars . Oh was i ever mad .. Although I like my old trucks, it still burns me up today to see the army still soliciting for the RR-related MOS's. .

Here's a nice modern-day video courtesy of Army Transportation Museum, Ft Eustis VA .. The same EMD-models in the video were present at FLW, Mo @2010 (and the old Alco's long-gone) when I went to pick up a truck and visit my old stomping grounds

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Yikes. Now don't be getting us all started on Recruiters, msgjd:

- Because it just might get knd of ugly!

Our Seabee Battalion once drew a deployment to Ft. Eustis way on back when (a need for some slabs-on-grade as I recall).

The old salts there referred to the post as "Fort Useless". That was a hoot!
 
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