RBS Express

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Not to be confused with SAC's "Mobile Minuteman" train in 1960 (Operation Big Star test).

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RBS Express sites

1961 Mar 1 (1st): Milan, Tennessee[1]
1961 (11th RBS): Rhame, North Dakota[2]
tbd: Bowman, North Dakota[3]
1961: McAlester, Oklahoma[4]
1961 December (#2): Hawthorne, Nevada[5]
1962 January: Greenville, Texas[6]
1962 April: Athens, Georgia [7]
1962 May: Jalapa, South Carolina[8]
1962 June: Barksdale AFB, Louisiana [9]
1963 Jan: Worthington, Minnesota [10]
1963 Mar-May: Deeth, Nevada[11]
1963 (# "III"): Jalapa, South Carolina[12]
1963 May-Jun (1st): depot[13]
1963 June (1st): Minnesota [14]
tbd: Corsicana, Texas[15]
1964 Jan: Emhouse, Texas [16]
1964 Jan-Mar: Thoreau, New Mexico[2]
tbd: Crane, Indiana[3]
1964 Sep: Moulton, Iowa [17]
1965: Scott City, Kansas[2]
1965 Apr-Sep: Newport, Arkansas (3rd time)[18]
1966 Oct: Wendell, Idaho [19]
1966-67:[20] Rion, South Carolina[21]
1968 February (w/ MSQ-39): Wellsville, Missouri[21]
1968 May: Naicom, Saskatchewan[22]
1968-9: Ritzville, Washington[23]
1969: Lawen, Oregon[21]
1970 May: Saskatoon, Canada[24]
1970-1: "Green River Site", Utah[25]

RBS Express railroad trains were 3 mobile United States Air Force radar stations for 1CEVG Radar Bomb Scoring (RBS) of Strategic Air Command bomber crews beginning in March 1961.[26] Electronic equipment included the "MSQ-39, TLQ-11, MPS-9, and the IFF/SIF for the MSQ-39"[27] along with support railcars ("work train"), and the trains were temporarily used at various rail sites (e.g., sidings) with the radar attennas emplaced using hoists built onto flatcars.[28] Pulled by a "contracted locomotive" that left the train at the site[29] (e.g., for 45 days),[1] and a North American B-25 Mitchell was used for calibration of the radar station.[30]

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 Pullman sleepers."[29]:{{{3}}} Depot maintenance for the trains was at the Tooele Army Depot[31] southwest of Salt Lake City ("Army Rail Shops").[13] Major Eugene R. Butler was the 1st commander of the "First RBS Express",[32] and each 1CEVG squadron's detachments manned a train[2] (after the 1965 discontinuation of RBS squadrons,[33]:{{{3}}} 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]

External image
image icon acquisition radar on railcar

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.    Citations in chronological order:
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  7. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OlRDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oa0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1371,2794902&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
  8. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OlRDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oa0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1371,2794902&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
    https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PVRDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oa0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=2765,3033845&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
  9. ↑ http://www.crenshawlocomotiveworks.com/rrvrhs/RRNewsletterNovember2010.pdf
  10. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WNI8AAAAIBAJ&sjid=AvcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1741,8324030&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
  11. ↑ http://drbilltellsancestorstories.blogspot.com/2012/02/those-places-thursday-rbs-express-62-63.html see also Nevada State Journal, May 12, 1963
  12. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P1RDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oa0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1195,3207164&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
    https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RVRDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oa0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=3708,3634789&dq=bomb-scoring-unit&hl=en
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  14. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kqpSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1n8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3280,6378078&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
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  16. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pos9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=8jUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2347,7890&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
  17. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tn1FAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tLwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1623,9317&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
  18. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EGMvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=My4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1447,852687&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
    https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JvpXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oPYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4651,2717497&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
  19. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WLJfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AzMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6003,3400534&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
  20. ↑ http://www.scrm.org/Newsletter18-Apr2012.pdf
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  22. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BC5gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=m28NAAAAIBAJ&pg=7240,880975&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
    https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JzFgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tW8NAAAAIBAJ&pg=7118,19127&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
  23. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=As8zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KvgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,1113583&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
  24. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TS5gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=n28NAAAAIBAJ&pg=881,299628&dq=bomb-scoring&hl=en
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  30. ↑ Tails Through Time: December 2009. Aviationtrivia.blogspot.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-18.
  31. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  32. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  33. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (partial transcription at 1stCombatEvaluationGroup.com)
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