RBS Express railroad trains were 3 mobile United States Air Force radar stations for 1CEVGRadar Bomb Scoring (RBS) of Strategic Air Command bomber crews beginning in March 1961.[31][32] Electronic equipment included the "MSQ-39, TLQ-11, MPS-9, and the IFF/SIF for the MSQ-39"[33] along with support railcars ("work train"), and the trains were temporarily used at various rail sites (e.g., sidings) with the radar antennas emplaced using hoists built onto flatcars.[34] Pulled by a "contracted locomotive" that left the train at the site[35] (e.g., for 45 days),[1] and a North American B-25 Mitchell was used for calibration of the radar station.[36]
Each train used "existing U.S. Army stock" from Ogden General Depot,[6] and each train's 21 cars (17 support and 4 radar cars) included "a generator car, two box cars (one for radar equipment maintenance, and one for support maintenance) [a] dining car, two day-room cars, supply cars, admin car, and 4 [crew sleeping cars]."[35] Depot maintenance for the trains was at the Tooele Army Depot[37] southwest of Salt Lake City ("Army Rail Shops").[15] Major Eugene R. Butler was the 1st commander of the "First RBS Express",[38] and each 1CEVG squadron's detachments manned a train[2] (after the 1965 discontinuation of RBS squadrons,[39] RBS detachments continued operating trains.) Butler's command had 60 11th RBS airmen: 15 from the Joplin Bomb Plot and others from the bomb plots at La Junta CO, Bismarck ND, Minneapolis MN, Salt Lake City UT, St Louis MO, and Little Rock AR.[1]
^ abcd"Combat Evaluation Group - A place for CEVG'ers and Range Rats to Meet (Yahoo newsgroup)". 9 January 2000. Citations in chronological order:
johnd584 (26 November 2004). "Message 11827". 11th RBS express set up in Rhame ND and Capt Reeves from Bismarck was the commander in summer of 1961 or 62{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Reyburn, David W (29 November 2004). "Re: Re: [Combat Evaluation Group] Re: RBS Express". train in Deeth, Nevada in April 1, 1963…train in Igloo, S.D. the middle of August 1963 and was there until we moved the train to Vaughn, N.M. the first of Oct. 1963…Train at Creston, WY the first of April…left for the Train Nov 12, 1964 for Moulton, Iowa…train and moved it to Scott City, KS…Left the train About February 25, 1965… train in Oberlin, LA in the middle of August 1965
McAfee, Emerson R. "tbd". train. … Several of us…volunteered to go to Lake City in 1964… And we had all kinds of volunteers for Mayfield, KY
Withers, Daniel A (17 February 2005). "Message 13073". Closing Deeth (literally), we relocated to the New Mexico garden spot of Vaughn.
McAfee, Emerson R (6 August 2005). "Re: Greetings!". I was at Det. 8 Richmond from Jun 63-Apr 72. I also made trips to Browns IL but we were the ones who moved it from Mauk GA to Browns so I was only at Browns for about a week
Hirsch, Ken (6 August 2005). "Message tbd". I was stationed at Detachment 3, Statesboro, GA from Oct. 1963 - Sept. 1966. Tours on the RBS Express were at…Browns, IL; Jonesboro, AR; Train on display in Philadelphia, PA; Mount Pleasant, TN and Port Henry, NY (2 tours - I liked it up there!).
Avery, Jim (8 August 2005). "Message 15844". We actually moved the train from Lake City, SC to Browns, IL. (The train moved from Mauk, GA to Thoreau, NM).
Ross, Don (30 August 2007). "Sqdns, Det 4 and Germany"(Yahoo newsgroup). Retrieved 9 July 2012. three RBS Express trains. One per sqdn
Skinner, Don (31 July 2010). "Memories/1CEG". Retrieved 24 September 2012. I spent the first 3 months of 1964 on RBS Express at Thoreau, NM as maintenance man
^Kalie, C. "The RBS Express…". Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2012. one of the…trains was parked near Hawthorne, Nevada in June 1960. [sic] Here you see the support cars on the left. Moving to the right, there is the MSQ-39, TLQ-11, MPS-9, and the IFF/SIF for the MSQ-39
^The RBS Express SFP1324. 1365th Photo Sq. Retrieved 17 May 2012. idea..born in 1960 … USAX 357645:50 …USAX 357046:10 … [grain silo near siding]6:57
^Kershaw, Marcia (8 December 1961). "Bomb Scoring Squadron To Be Moved To Mississippi Base in February". Joplin Globe. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2012. Detachment 2 was moved here from Oklahoma City under command of Major Eugene R. Butler with 35 men and officers and has grown to a strength of 72 Personnel … have manned the First a train carrying complete radar bomb scoring equipment for the purpose of scoring SAC bomber at remote locations … Major Butler was the first commander of the First RBS Express
