Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Mike Brantley | 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs Office | 02.14.2009
Maj. Scott Meyer, Strategic Mobility - Iraqi Railroad Program Manager with the Multi-National Force - Iraq, and a native of Naugatuck, Conn., summons the first locomotive to enter Camp Taji since 2004 across Main Supply Route Tampa, Feb. 10....
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Mike Brantley | 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs Office | 02.14.2009
The first locomotive on Camp Taji since 2004 comes through Train Gate on Feb. 10 to begin the Proof of Principle Rail Mission of moving 40 containers from Camp Taji to the port city of Umm Qasr....
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Mike Brantley | 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs Office | 02.14.2009
Reginald Pratt, equipment operator from Navasota, Texas, places the first of 40 empty containers onto the rail car for onward movement from Camp Taji to the port city of Umm Qasr, Feb. 10....
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Mike Brantley | 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs Office | 02.10.2009
Security forces cut the lock securing Train Gate on Feb. 10 in preparation to receive the first locomotive since 2004 into the Taji Rail Yard....
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Mike Brantley | 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs Office | 02.10.2009
A locomotive pulling 20 cars of 40 empty containers prepares to depart Camp Taji's railyard on Feb. 10, on its two-day trip to the port city of Umm Qasr. The proof of principle was the first time in five years that railroad operations occurred there....
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Mike Brantley | 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs Office | 02.10.2009
Loaded containers wait on the tracks during the proof of principle rail mission on Feb. 10 at Camp Taji, Iraq. Forty empty containers began their two-day trip from there to the port city of Umm Qasr....
