Railway troops
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Railway troops are soldiers who are also railway engineers. They build, repair, operate or destroy militarily relevant railway lines and their associated infrastructure.
Narrow gauge railway brigade engine from 1918/19
Deutsche Reichsbahn
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The Deutsche Reichsbahn, also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created afte
Railway troops
…railways were subordinated to the Master of Field Railways (Chef des Feldeisenbahnwesens or FECH). Railways troops were also deployed to protect the Deutsche Reichsbahn during the Second World War. Shortly after its foundation, the Bundeswehr established a railway engineering training and trials company which, in 1961…
Twenty-billion mark notgeld banknote issued by the Deustche Reichsbahn in Berlin, October 1923
A DRG conductor in 1928 complete with rank insignia
WWII Reichsbahn military marked railwayman's carbide burner lantern (c. 1942)
The wagon monument, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem