Military Locos?

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Correct! In the continental US, military locomotives (including Army, 
Navy and Air Force) were used for switching movements on bases. Class A 
roads would be contracted to move trains with military freight from base 
to base or to ports for shipping. In many cases the switching in modern 
times is a government-owned, contractor operated setup. For example, at 
Ft Bragg NC the Cape Fear RR operated three locomotives moving trains of 
equipment going to deployments and exercises, as well as rail shipments 
of jet fuel for Pope AFB and various supplies. They had two "Carolina 
Blue" cabooses to provide accomodations for guard detachments traveling 
with the equipment trains, as CSX didn't have much in the way of such to 
provide by the 80s and 90s when I was watching them.
Military RR units with US Army-marked motive power were used extensively 
in wartime to operate trains overseas. Most of the rolling stock was 
foreign equipment and the engines were equipped to mate with their 
couplers. Stateside a few specialized pieces of rolling stock exist, 
such as the DODX-marked heavy-duty flats for tanks and the tank cars 
that crried the jet fuel. At the Army Transportation Museum at Ft. 
Eustis some interesting historical examples are preserved, including a 
training caboose with cupola and bay windows.
The ARROW had some excellent articles recently on WW II units staffed 
with N&W folks who served in Europe.

Jeff Cornelius







nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:


> Several manufacturers have released loco model with U.S. Army 

> lettering. Does anyone know if any USA locos would have been used on 

> the country's mainlines or would they have been used only around army 

> bases?

>

> I would think that each road would want to use their own motive power 

> for military movements, but I've never seen anything written about them.

> Jimmy Lisle

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