All rights belong to the owner that we give credit to. No Copyright Infringement Intended. This page was created in 2011, long before the reorganization of the 757th Transportation Rail Battalion to the newly formed 757th Expeditionary Rail Center that occurred in 2015. After a few years of making only a handful of posts on this page once the redesignation occurred, we finally decided to take on a
more active page posting role despite the fact that the last remaining U.S. Army Rail Battalion was now long gone. The current admin staff for this page, each of whom served the 757th faithfully until the end - until we were one by one forced to leave the unit as it downsized and reformed - feel this page is our last remaining tie to that old rail unit we loved and now miss so much. However, since we unfortunately have relatively few historic photos and information on hand of our old unit, we decided to make this page into a broader collection of U.S. Military Rail photos, videos, and information. Therefore, you will see that what we post not only focuses on U.S. Army Rail in general, but also on Rail for other branches of service. It makes sense, in our minds, for us to do that given the situation and also since most of our staff here, who are all now retired from service, have served in more than one branch of service, working in a variety of U.S. Military Rail establishments. But what's most important to us by far is that you simply enjoy the page. Please have fun with the wide variety of stuff we post and feel free to add additional content of your own. Cheers! Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for the purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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LINEAGE & HONORS
757TH TRANSPORTATION CENTER:
Constituted 1 July 1933 in the Organized Reserves as the 664th Engineer Battalion
Organized by 1937 in Michigan
Redesignated 21 February 1941 as the 757th Engineer Battalion
Redesignated 1 April 1942 as the 757th Engineer Railway Shop Battalion
Converted and redesignated 16 November 1942 as the 757th Railway Shop Battalion, Transportation Corps
Ordered into active military service 3 June 1943 at the Army Service Forces Unit Training Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Inactivated 7 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 23 March 1948 as the 757th Transportation Railway Shop Battalion
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Activated 8 April 1948 with Headquarters at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Inactivated 25 October 1951 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Activated 25 August 1952 with Headquarters at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Redesignated 1 January 1955 as the 757th Transportation Battalion
Battalion broken up 31 January 1968 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
Headquarters and Headquarters Company as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 757th Transportation Battalion
(Companies A, B, C, and D as the 1150th, 1151st, 1152d, and 1153d Transportation Companies, respectively--hereafter separate lineages)
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 757th Transportation Battalion reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1968 as Headquarters, 757th Transportation Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 757th Transportation Battalion
Inactivated 16 December 1980 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Redesignated 16 May 1985 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 757th Transportation Battalion and activated at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Location changed 1 July 1987 to West Allis, Wisconsin; on 16 September 1993 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1998 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 757th Transportation Battalion
Detachment ordered into active military service 2 January 2003 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; remainder of battalion ordered into active military service 10 February 2003 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Battalion (less Detachment) released from active military service 4 June 2003 and reverted to reserve status; Detachment released from active military service 1 November 2003 and reverted to reserve status
Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 2015 as the 757th Transportation Center; concurrently location changed to St. Louis, Missouri
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT:b
World War II
Normandy
Northern France
Central Europe
DECORATIONS:
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER
Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1990-1991
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR. Chief of Military History
