by RailVet
The 1355th Transportation Railway Operating Company, a Reserve unit at Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, NC, organized to augment MOTSU when mobilized, was to be reorganized and reflagged as the 1151st Transportation Company (Railway), an overseas deployable rail unit. (Currently there's already an 1151st, as well as the 1150th and 1152nd, under the 757th Trans Battalion (Railway), headquartered in Milwaukee. The existing 1151st was to be inactivated and its personnel reassigned to the remaining 1150th and 1152nd, while a "new" 1151st was to be established by reorganizing and reflagging the existing 1355th TROC.) Those plans have been cancelled, and instead the 1355th is simply going away, along with its detachment at Blue Grass Army Depot, KY. Personnel in the 1355th are retiring, transferring to the 650th Trans Co (a truck unit in Wilmington, NC), or going elsewhere.
Two GE 80-tons at MOTSU, USA 1640 and 1681, actually belong to the 1355th. At last look they were sitting dormant at the rail gate, unused by the base, which prefers its geeps. It's unknown whether the base commander will try to get them assigned to MOTSU when the 1355th is officially inactivated in mid-September.
On the Pioneer Valley RR in Westfield, MA, the 1205th Transportation Railway Operating Battalion has its two geeps, USA 4601 and 4602. The contract will run out in the near future (probably by the end of the fiscal year on 30 Sep 06) but it's certainly not going to be renewed. The 1205th's attached unit, the 226th Trans Co (Rwy), an overseas deploying unit, will remain active at nearby Westover Air Reserve Base, but it's apparently not going to get the two geeps. The MOTSU commander, who is also the former commander of the 1205th, is going to try to get the two geeps reassigned to MOTSU, but that will likely depend upon the Army deciding if they're needed elsewhere or if MOTSU is seen to have all of the locomotives it's authorized for its level of traffic.
Two GE 80-tons at MOTSU, USA 1640 and 1681, actually belong to the 1355th. At last look they were sitting dormant at the rail gate, unused by the base, which prefers its geeps. It's unknown whether the base commander will try to get them assigned to MOTSU when the 1355th is officially inactivated in mid-September.
On the Pioneer Valley RR in Westfield, MA, the 1205th Transportation Railway Operating Battalion has its two geeps, USA 4601 and 4602. The contract will run out in the near future (probably by the end of the fiscal year on 30 Sep 06) but it's certainly not going to be renewed. The 1205th's attached unit, the 226th Trans Co (Rwy), an overseas deploying unit, will remain active at nearby Westover Air Reserve Base, but it's apparently not going to get the two geeps. The MOTSU commander, who is also the former commander of the 1205th, is going to try to get the two geeps reassigned to MOTSU, but that will likely depend upon the Army deciding if they're needed elsewhere or if MOTSU is seen to have all of the locomotives it's authorized for its level of traffic.
