https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhAzkd81-3Y

Is this just a mixed load of vehicles being moved from A to B or is it some kind of complete unit? There are a few trucks pulling 155 mm artillery, a motorgrader, front loaders, tankers, lots of Hum-V's, some kind of radar?? on a trailer so to my amateur eyes it seems to be a strange unit.
/ Robin

It looks like a couple of units (Arty and Engineer) together on the same train. They are probably going to or from the National Training Center (NTC) at Ft Irwin, CA. It is a wheeled vehicle train, which is based on the type of train cars used and what they can carry. Multiple units will be mixed together to fill the train.

Hello Robin,

The comments below the video suggest that this train either originated from Fort Bragg, North Carolina or that it was returning there. Fort Bragg is the home of the US ARMY 82d Airborne Division and Special Operations Forces, in case you did not know that already.

It does look like a good mixture of artillery, engineers, medical and other support equipment to me, too.

I think if you type words such as military trains El Paso and Fort Hood into YouTube, you may find similar film that shows more Bradleys and M1's.

Respectfully,
Allen

Thanks Gino & Allen :-)

/ Robin

Bumper codes are 82nd ABN.

Seriously? These guys chase trains around and film them? Damn, they are just as geeky as us!

Oh yes.....they are called Railfans/Railbuffs. There are probably more of them than there are modelers. I'm a Locomotive Engineer for a class 1 RR on the east coast. We see them daily along the tracks. If we have something "special" like a heritage engine, they will follow up 50-100 miles. I don't think bad of them. It's a hobby like any other.

Nice, lots of air-droppable LMTV/FMTV.

Then there are the guys who, for rail road locomotives and especially aircraft, will sit near runways and literally log the registration numbers of aircraft (locomotives) that pass in and out of the airport.

Reggie Spotters, like bird spotters, meticulously log what and when they see everything, with notables being photographed. There are entire histories of individual aircraft "out there" compiled by reggie spotters and passed around.

Paul

Namerifrats, what is a Class 1 RR? I suppose there are Class 2, 3 etc. as well. I assume it has to do with overall weight & loco size.

Thanks

Sweeeeeet! I would chase that train a while myself. Softskins galore! Half of the models waiting to be built on my shelves were sailing along on that train. Really cool. Thanks for posting!

Gary